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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children assembled in a theatre, took part in the President's party for the White House office staff, another party in the East room for the White Household staff, and attended a Christmas party of the Salvation Army. Her activities during the rest of the week were every bit as strenuous. Most notable of them was her "Gridiron Widows" party, which she instituted three years ago for newshens and grass widows of all those attending the Gridiron Dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ladies' Party | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...name is Su-lin, which means a-little-bit-of-something-cute," Mrs. Harkness explained. Su-lin had one tooth cut aboard the President McKlnley. Shivering newshawks watched her grasp the bottle in her paws, jerk off the nipple, suck Mrs. Harkness' ear lobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Su-lin In | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...lived in Australia three years and have seen five koalas. Four that lived in a chicken coop in a backyard in Melbourne and one wild one. The wild one cried and when given some leaves to eat wanted to play. I gave it a finger and it bit me as hard as a newborn lamb can bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year (Cont'd) | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Skillful casting and makeup has wrought a group of bit players in the opening scene into a realistic facsimile of Lincoln's Cabinet. Cinemagoers with good memory of their history books may recognize Secretary of State Seward, Secretary ot War Stanton, Attorney General Speed Postmaster General William Dennison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Spiciest bit was a memorandum found in the files of George F. Baker, Chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, which Senator Wheeler read into the rec ord. It related a telephone conversation in March 1935 in which Harold Stanley, then a Morgan partner, told a vice president of the First National that "the Van Sweringens, heretofore having drawn no salaries from the enterprises and for some time having been living on their insurance, are up against it to provide for living expenses. They estimate their joint require ments to be $150,000 a year, the principal items being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ball & Chain | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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