Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought Miss Rita Rio's tapdancing and moanin' low rated her a larger role, just as we tired of goggleeyed Cantor; but judged on the basis of a Cantor picture, this one seemed highly successful. Its rapid sequence of situations, each a bit funnier than its predecessor, and the sustained continuity of the melodramatic plot--rare in musical pictures--give to the picture enough fun and excitement to merit it the attention of even lukewarm Cantor addicts...
More surprising was the other bit of publicity, for it emanated from Manhattan's fabulous First National ("The Baker Bank"), an institution whose able management has never thought it necessary or dignified to tell the public anything. In a sudden confidence President Jackson Eli Reynolds announced that First National's list of stockholders has increased by about 1,000 in the last year, now numbers 4,500. Of these some 1,400 held only one share each...
...bit tamed, I too am untranslatable...
...Lawson bit, sent him. In a 26-ft. sailboat the Farsons chugged, sailed or were towed from Rotterdam to the Danube delta. Husband Farson's news-dispatches paid for the trip. Thereafter for eleven years Farson covered the Eastern Hemisphere, from Gandhi to Stalin to Ramsay MacDonald, for the Daily News. Finally he was given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh...
...follow the old paths. In June a Soviet plane will try that route. Grim, nevertheless Stalin is raising a hubbub among the international lawyers the world over; for what does the Soviet Government do but claim even the pack ice all the way to the North Pole! Ah, the bit in the teeth; the jump at the starting post in the race for the Arctic! For pack ice is good for radio stations and even landing fields. What a merry mess for the lawyers! If an iceberg with a radio station breaks away and drifts down to Alaska, will...