Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pointed to the Phi Beta Kappa key attached to the chain of a fancy Swiss pocket watch he kept lying on the desk to time our progress through History 32. "It's what a man knows that counts, not just the marks he can get"--a rather starting bit of philosophy to hear from a professional tutor. When I read him a list of six topics which Professor Ropp had given out as probable exam questions, Cramer said, "We don't want to aim for any particular topics. This man Ropp fooled some of the boys on the last exam...
Chewing his way through some apple pan dowdy in the Union yesterday noon, the Freshman suddenly bit into a small piece of window-glass. He took it to the waitress...
After nine years, it was inevitable that there should be changes among the D'Oyly Carters: new faces; new but in no way newfangled scenery; an orchestra that seemed a bit lacking in volume and verve. But for the most part things remained wonderfully unchanged: this highborn troupe whose ancestors ushered half the Savoy operas into the world has long subdued individual talent to group traditions. At moments their work might seem more traditional than talented; but the D'Oyly Carters remained the most stylish and polished of G. & S. performers, the most grandly operatic as they trilled...
...year scholarship at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. Broadway Producer Guthrie McClintic saw him and signed him for a last-act bit in the road tour of Katharine Cornell's The Doctor's Dilemma. On that tour, Peck met and later married Greta Konen, a tiny, bright-blonde Finnish girl who was Cornell's hairdresser...
...disillusionment at year's end, Socialist Arthur Koestler wrote of Britain: "The problem of incentives is the most difficult and most important problem of Socialist economy [and yet] the massacre of incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted...