Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington Comptroller McCarl bit but held his tongue. The most officially unpopular man in the Government, he is hardened to abuse...
...Hearst accompanied his blows* with many a spellbinding flourish, gallant references to women, a few vivid phrases ("Cossack crew of enforcement officers," "bonehead Drys and bullhead Wets"). His conclusion was a concentrated attack upon the Jones Act, and this bit of advice from potent Publisher William Randolph Hearst...
...decades ago, when Americanization was word-of-the-hour, a slim, stylish, grey-haired woman with a brisk, dynamic manner and a pleasant, persuasive voice, left the protection of Rittenhouse Square and journeyed across Philadelphia to the foreign quarter to "do her bit." She was Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and wife of Edward William Bok, famed immigrant-publicist. Her problem was obvious. Philadelphia's foreign quarter was and is like any other city's-crowded, ingrown, hostile to the U. S. culture enveloping it, which it cannot understand. Mrs. Bok tried...
...table, one leg of which was equipped as an aerial, another as a ground. The phenomena were produced by the activation of an electromagnet which attracted pieces of metal cleverly hidden in the performing objects. There was even a small piece of metal concealed in the bit of chalk which did the writing, directed by a telautograph...
...However that may be, the Vagabond, last Saturday, having seen in the papers that this great invention-which has done more for sharpening the mind of the nation than cross word puzzles and "Ask Me Another" combined was about to be put into force again, decided to be a bit beforehand and improve the shining hour-and his physical well-being by undertaking an excursion up the silvan Charles...