Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckner had quite a time getting shoes to fit the diagram. With it he tramped from shoe store to shoe store without success. Some salesmen thought him a bit balmy. Eventually he found the right fit. The salesman wanted to know what kind of man ordered shoes that way. Buckner told him and the salesman muttered: "Didn't know Frenchmen had such wide feet...
From a Tory back bench Brigadier Harold Ripley rose to bite on a bitter note: "Is it in order for the right honorable gentleman to call those of us who have done a little bit for our country Nazis? If so, the right honorable gentleman may as well understand quite clearly that I regard him as a low-class fascist." That set off a verbal Donnybrook. Cries of "tyrants . . . gag . . . come on, Hitler" crackled across the gilded chamber...
...great manor house of Alresford, Hants, one spring day 797 years ago, a gentle-hearted lady lay sick unto death. Outside her chamber windows yeomen's ploughs bit deep into her rich husband's acres, preparing them for the crops that would make him even richer by summer's end. But all Lady Tichborne could think of were the poor villagers in Alresford with little or no land or wheat of their...
...actor, Sugar Chile was as happy as his audience. Said he last week: "It's like a jigsaw puzzle. You come to rehearsal, do a little bit, then they put it all together. When the show goes on, you walk out, say your piece and that's all there is to it. When you play the piano, you really gotta play loud, then you gotta bow, then play again. You never know when you're through...
Through the Mirror. Mailmen gossiped that Owen's promotion was plotted by Ann Rothermere, who, keeps a bright and calculating eye on her easygoing husband's affairs. The Rothermeres had paved the way for the change by a complicated bit of high finance. They spent some $3,000,000 to clinch their shaky hold on the Mail by buying out the shares held by London's tabloid Mirror, and trading off their own shares in the Mirror...