Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vaccines are no use . . . they are not worth the trouble. . . . Vitamins don't prevent colds or cure them. There's a bit of a racket there. ... If you take no drugs, your cold lasts 14 days; if you take drugs, it lasts a fortnight...
...find out what his readers want, Mister Bart occasionally does a bit of pub-crawling. This has resulted in a New Look for Jane. After enduring several cold winters in bra and panties (or less), she has been more modestly clad; Bartholomew, impressed by the Mirror's political weathermaking, thinks her old near-nudeness "no longer seems right in a paper which people are taking seriously...
...secretary, after the sun comes out; and it poses the problem-an old one for broadish comedy-of how long an attractive and attracted man and girl can live together without living together. Before uniting them legally at the final curtain, Playwright Herbert keeps them apart a bit lewdly for almost three acts. He manages to squeeze a few amusing moments out of their immaculate proximity by shamelessly tossing in anything, apt or alien, that comes to mind...
Gertrude Stein had leisure, intelligence, curiosity and quite a bit of gall. She never got tired of playing games with language. She preferred to live in Europe, but America and Americans always fascinated her. Four in America is an inquiry about the American soul as exemplified in four great men: Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James and George Washington. A year ago last July, a few weeks before her death, Miss Stein sent the manuscript to Yale, which has now published it in its entirety for the first time...