Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncertainty of not knowing whether the U. S. had abandoned its silver purchases, or merely postponed them. Secretary Morgenthau swore the U. S. was sticking to its silver policy but what that was to be hereafter was anybody's guess. Silver traders the world over swore and bit their nails. U. S. financiers admitted they could not fathom it. In Reno Senator Pittman sat down and dictated a long signed statement for the Press. Excerpts: "Certain governments and certain banking institutions and speculators in ... foreign countries desire to know what our government is going...
British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare had broken his nose while ice-skating at Zuoz. "Flying Sam" told reporters when they arrived that he had skinned his nose, continued to go out skating with a small bit of court plaster over...
...Ethiopians do not consider themselves Negroes," continued Negro Julian, adjusting his Ascot and eyeing the crease in his Savile Row pearl-striped trousers. "American Negroes should keep out of international affairs! I saw Ethiopian soldiers tortured and mutilated because they had stolen a bit of grain or refused to fight. It was not only brutality by the Ethiopians toward Italian prisoners, but toward men, women and children of their own race. I saw children who had stolen a little bread, with hands chained to their feet. I have not written a book, I have written an epistle...
...handsome a man as Dartmouth even offered to the movies, Bob Allen seemed destined to mirror the obscurity of another Dartmouth son in Holywood, Charles Starrett. Allen knocked about in bit parts for several years and could convince no one that his football and college stage training meant anything...
When he moves to describe "The Revolt" Mr. Wechsler is bucking heavier odds but his analysis, is generally credible. There is a tendency to draw lines a bit too sharply and to exaggerate student playfulness into political activity but in general Mr. Wechsler seems to have gotten the spirit of the American campus. Though it displeases him very much is appears to this reviewer that indifference, annoying as it can be, is preferable to half-baked activity and student organization such as is seen today in the middle and west of Europe. Indifference may not be good preparation for citizenship...