Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just occurred to me that he would look better if he wore a beard." While laboriously composing her letter to the great man (and she made only one draft of it) she suddenly became aware that the implications of her note might "hurt his feelings." To add a bit of possible salve she accordingly told the President that the "rail fence around your picture looks real pretty." This referred to the pictorial fence bordering the campaign pictures of Hannibal Hamlin and Abraham Lincoln...
...read a piquant item in the catalog in which swank American Art Association Anderson Galleries last week were describing parcels to be auctioned in Manhattan Dec. 9 & 10. Special clients who were permitted to pore through these early editions of Herr Hitler's Battle found many another rare bit of the Leader's wishful anthropology, since suppressed, revised or left out in translation. Samples...
...referee moved the ball to Minnesota's one year line and a Northwestern touchdown, it was well known that Minnesota had been playing football since 1932 without a single defeat. Coach Bernie Bierman wore Knute Rockne's mantle; to Minneapolis citizens from bellboy up, the garment even seemed a bit snug...
...personal, room-to-room canvass by members of the house committee who collect exactly one-half of one percent of the annual room-rent. This rate has been judged both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House committee is far wider and the general result in satisfaction repays the initial effort many times over...
...such good songs as One, Two- Button Your Shoe and Let's Call a Heart a Heart are beginning to suffer from the audience's apprehension that the next sequence may be pennies from heaven in a submarine, or pennies from heaven with the Spanish Revolution. Best bit: black Louis Armstrong with his band rendering "Skeleton in the Closet...