Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Drink. In Sacramento, Frank Taylor, after carelessly gulping blazing-hot coffee, 1) choked, 2) bit his lip, 3) fell off his chair, 4) struck his head, 5) cut his ear, 6) went to a hospital...
...politics seeped up his nose and changed him for good. After his defeat, he looked back on the mayoralty campaign morosely, convinced that he might have won if Welch had let him talk. So he filed for Lieutenant Governor of the state; a Democrat, he was not a bit surprised when he was elected in the Roosevelt landslide...
...Upon my return to the States I wondered if my interest would wane. After three months of civilian life I can say that it hasn't one bit. TIME is part of my life...
...Back Bay Brahmins who pay the Symphony's deficits-get a concert free. To make things intimate, Boston's vast Symphony Hall is curtained off halfway back. Last week, at the annual club concert, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky led the orchestra through a typical free-treat program-a bit of Mozart, a bit of Berlioz. Then he shooed the orchestra off stage, began a short speech in Russian-coated English: "Our Boston Symphony discovered Dorothy Maynor. Today we discover another great singer-Carol Brice. I hope very soon this artist will also be as great as Dorothy Maynor...
Truckline Cafe wholly muffed a chance to give dramatic, or even melodramatic force to a timely theme. In its casual moments it was flaccid, in its crucial ones unreal. Playwright Anderson's small army of bit parts had an effect of shambling vaudeville. His main story became a hollow study of two people speaking high-busted clichés. Too often, as in the past, he slubbed words into what was neither poetic language nor human speech...