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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Lee--A bit of Chinatown in our midst. Good food--American and Chinese. Buy a meal ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

That the politics in this bit of Rooseveltian history were not wholly on the Republican side became evident later in the week when none other than Press-agent Charles Michelson of the Democratic National Committee released extracts from the purported contract to confirm Son Elliott's version of its terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Son's Scheme | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...rainy midnight last week the great German dirigible Hindenburg rose from her moorings at Lakehurst, N. J., for her tenth,and final 1936 crossing of the Atlantic eastward. Just before she soared away her massive designer, Dr. Hugo Eckener, celebrated a summer of perfect performance with a bit of perfect publicity. On an invitation cruise over six Eastern States he carried 84 potent U. S. industrialists, Government officials and financiers, as a demonstration of lighter-than-air transport to those best able to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rich Cargo | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Escanaba, Mich., a parrot bit a banker's finger. A week later the parrot died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck for a movie career. He's as smart as they come, but a little bit shy. So I take him along with me to let him mix and get used to folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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