Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while erstwhile Bolero fans occupied themselves with other fads & fancies, the music world mourned the death of Composer Ravel, most noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three...
...line original as well as humorous; but just the same, you are conscious of the presence of well-wrinkled repartee. It doesn't make Bette Davis look prettier to hear her say: "I'll swallow my pride and go to him"; after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms of his stage partner, "Your husband." Perhaps you are the kind who can overlook the bad and remember only the good; then, you will long enjoy such lines as the one by Mr. Howard kissing...
...preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than the first step. Gradually, bit by bit he succeeded in molding the uncooperative snow into a large ball. Suddenly straightening up, he hurled it with all his force at one of the windows of the Reading Room. The missle only splashed on the thirteenth step. But in an agony of apprehension the boy scurried around...
...Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi. For yokels: It's no go the Herring Board, it's no go the Bible, All we want is a packet of fags* when our hands are idle...
...Veneroff Tarleton has become Picture's editor, Remie Lohse its head cameraman. Lest Getchell clients like Chrysler, DeSoto, Plymouth, Kelly-Springfield or Seagram's fear that he is neglecting his $8,000,000-a-year agency for the new magazine, Publisher Getchell wants it known that every bit of work he has or will put in on Picture comes at night and over the weekends...