Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be admitted that American Communist leaders are a rather clever lot. Otherwise they could never--even to their own satisfaction--have squared Soviet Russia's recent actions with their traditional attitude. Perhaps they did squirm a bit at the outset. But with time and some amazing intellectual acrobatics, they were able to produce an explanation--a proof of the logic and inevitability and complete orthodoxy of the whole business...
...Princeton Man, yes. You could hardly miss him. Tweeds and a good pipe and that sort of thing. He's handsome in an orthodox manner-- looks a bit like a collegiate clothes-model in Esquire. Fresh, the lady novelists would call him. He likes week-ends and New York, gets sentimental over the Tiger and a glass of beer...
...know, I've been around a bit, further than the New Lecture Hall. The Vagabond was eager now, champing at the bit. He was preparing to tell how he--typical in his own opinion--had been received variously out in the world...
...Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed by polished, twinkling Louis Jouvet, a director of the Comédie-Française and one of France's most illustrious actor-managers. Beautifully played to the last bit, The End of a Day is a glowing and worthy tribute to its profession...
...radio industry's present five-year contract with ASCAP expires in December 1940, but for the last three years broadcasters have been girding for a great fight to break ASCAP's hold on U, S. music. Last week in Chicago, NAB got in a showy bit of brandishing, by voting to organize something to be called Broadcast Music, Inc. Subject to SEC requirements, stock will be sold to broadcasters up to one-half their 1937 payments to ASCAP. In 1937 ASCAP collected $3,878,000 from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music...