Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief, holding all the cards, refused. Tired and shaken, Chanis capitulated, then went to bed. He had been in office almost four months (as successor to the late President Diaz Arosemena) and seemed a bit relieved at the prospect of returning to his medical practice. The victors rounded up the Supreme Court, and at 6 a.m. handsome, square-jawed Vice President Roberto F. ("Nino") Chiari, 44, was sworn in as Chanis' successor. Within an hour he received the traditional loyalty oath from his second cousin, Police Chief...
What has been called 'the "Carmen Illusion" about Spain has faded a bit in the past decade. But a bit of the illusion persists these nights on the stage of the Shubert Theater. "A Night in Spain" is a melange of the expected strumming guitars and staccato heel dancing...
...entrances were accurate and confident. The strings were together, really together, biting out their passages with a precision reminiscent of some Koussevitzky performances I have heard. The woodwinds were in tune with each other, and the brass was prominent but never blatant. In short, the Orchestra bit off a large piece of music and swallowed it admirably...
...prices had risen, 25% on news that Brazil's crop will be short because of damage. Many retailers had taken advantage of the scare to mark up their stocks on hand as much as 50%. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to calm things down a bit. There was enough coffee around, said the department, to prevent an acute'shortage. The National Coffee Association agreed. Snapped an N.C.A. official: "There's no question but that present excessive demand is entirely artificial and unhealthy...
...unquestionably deserved the title was the late Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). Novelist Firbank was an esthete whose behavior was so "odd" that even such a case-hardened bird-watcher as Sir Osbert Sitwell is moved to confess in an introduction that Friend Firbank must have felt a bit "hedged off" in a private world that was noticeably "different from that of others...