Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personally believe, it is time for the New Deal to taper off a bit...
...they're not content unless they carve their initials in the wood exhibits and the display cases. . . . I even used to try to figure out in advance what they were going to do and then try to prevent it. But do you think that helped? Not a bit. Every move I made they were 30 seconds ahead of me." Best-behaved, observed Guide Casey, are rural students. "I can pick them out every time. They take more interest in the displays, try to see everything and learn more than any of the others...
...both offers, but did not drop out of sight. From then on he was No. 1 U. S. country newspaper editor and prairie philosopher. Forty Years on Main Street is a collection of his editorials, grouped by subject, covering the best of his output. The result is an interesting bit of Americana combining a Main Street diary, a graph of the devious political path of a Progressive of Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Class of 1912, and an all-but-extinct type of "personal journalism...
Roark Bradford has already added his bit to U. S. letters in Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, the book from which Marc Connelly made The Green Pastures. Author Bradford has never quite recaptured the careless rapture of his first book, but he is now well established as a legitimate heir of Joel Chandler Harris. The Three-Headed Angel is a new departure for him, not only because it is not laid in the deep South but because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss...
Still smiling as he swing into the last lap, "Butch" was a full half-length behind John Scruggs of Maysville, Ky. But he came in gamely in a bit under 15 minutes, panting: "I guess you boys...