Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiorello LaGuardia, the new boss of UNRRA, tried to do his bit. After busting protocol in Washington to hurry necessary grains to central Europe, he unloaded all his fiery wrath on those people who still insist on eating pie a la mode. Cried he: "Those people, why they simply have no hearts at all. Belly Americans, that's what they are. Fat, rich, gooey pastry in these times! What we need here is a pastry holiday...
...Arabian port the crew refused to serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon's beer ration, he broke from his cage, bit Haas and splashed ashore. The men organized a safari, chased the baboon and killed...
...Buddhist priesthood, which recently organized for politics, to efficient Miss Shidzue Yamaguchi, a typist sponsored by Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa. A few Communists had been stoned. The Communists had mobbed the residence of Premier Baron Kijuro Shidehara. One radical had even called the Emperor "that guy," a bit of new liberty the legality of which was under study by the high courts...
Rare is the literary dog who leaves Hollywood without biting the hand that fed him. Biographer (and onetime scenarist) Emil Ludwig bit hard in La Bataille, a Paris weekly. His article, The Seven Pillars of Hollywood, recently reached the U.S. Excerpts...
Perfidious, but like Us. Now & then Editor Ingersoll relents a bit, acknowledges that Eisenhower did a fairly good job as a conciliator, all but cries out that some of his best friends are British. The joint management of World War II, says he, was on the whole "spectacularly efficient . . . the most effective example of management of allied armed forces in the history of warfare." The British, moreover, are at bottom not so bad, and much "like us." The catch is that they always act in what seems to be their national interest, irritating practice to the U.S., which also wants...