Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of these minor discomforts, and in spite of an earlier bit of snootiness on the part of Lady Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador to the U. S. (see p. 15),* the King and Queen got a good press last week in the U. S. as well as Canada. Some of the credit went to fat, genial Walter S. Thompson, chief publicity agent of the Canadian National Railway System and pressherd of the Royal Tour. Some went to the press itself, which was notably well behaved. Most of it went to the King and Queen, who cor rected...
...produced flying machines. The U. S. Army bought a half-million dollars' worth* of Martin 167 attack bombers, two-engine ships that can streak through the air at 360 m.p.h., tote a ton of bombs, maneuver against the nimblest pursuit ship in the air. It was no two-bit order, but it was not big enough to give pleasure to Glenn Luther Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif. But the fact that...
...will undoubtedly twirl for Cornell against Dartmouth tomorrow, and he will be an odds-on favorite to pitch the Redmen to a victory over the Green. Up at Hanover, however, it might be another story, because for some reason or other, Sickles seems to find the going a little bit tougher when he isn't working in his own back-yard in Ithaca. The best guess is that Dartmouth will oblige by taking the finale to drop Sickles and Co. down into a tie with the Crimson...
...needed; and Charley Brackett has received his baptism under fire. Curtiss won the Penn game last Friday and almost won his second game in as many days against the Crusaders Saturday. This improvement in Crimson twirling also makes the two-game Yale series on June 20 and 21 a bit easier to take in stride...
...Sydney, Australia, a court decided that Charles Sutton, a workman, should be awarded compensation because a fish bit...