Word: bitted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wait a Bit." In one of Chekhov's short stories, some city people, whom we may take as symbolic of the Western world, try to make friends with the peasants of a nearby village, only to be repulsed time after time. The last attempt is made by the mother of the family, Elena Ivanovna, who goes to the village with her little girl, and tries to have a heart-to-heart talk with the peasants. It is not successful. Here is what Chekhov tells...
...Mistress!' Rodion called out, walking after her. 'Mistress, wait a bit. I want to tell you something. . . . Live along here, be patient, and everything will work out all right. Our people are good, peaceful. . . . Don't pay any attention to Kozov or to the Lychkovs, and don't pay any attention to Volodka, he is just a fool; he listens to whoever speaks first. The rest of them are all right. They have good hearts and they have good consciences, but they have no tongues. Wait a couple of years and you can have the school...
...dried as a stalk in an old corn shock. Big, conservative, conscientious Gustav Theodore Kuester (TIME, April 29) had left his rich Cass County acres and no head of first-rate hogs in the care of a friend and moved into smoggy Des Moines to do his biennial bit of legislating. The 98 Republicans in the 108-member House promptly and unanimously elected him Speaker...
Marshall shook hands all around, chatted a bit, thanked T.V. for his basket of Formosan shaddock and pomelo (akin to grapefruit), urged everyone not to wait in the chill damp outdoors. For a few moments he stood alone by the ramp; he seemed a trifle impatient because the Gimo and Madame were late...
Perhaps the melodrama muscles into the new Street Scene a bit too conspicuously; there is, at any rate, a good deal less of the old garish street life, the huddled, gabby tenement humanity. But, endangered by a lot of song-&-dance distractions, the story builds much more strongly by leaning on plot rather than people. And it finds time for enough that is human and humorous. Composer Weill (Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) scores with all his lighter songs and with some of his romantic ones. And there are good people to sing them-notably, opera singer Polyna Stoska...