Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Blumenfeld elaborated: "This deadly [U.S.] 'gin' has ruined more homes, wrecked more young lives and showered more misery on a great and generously minded country than years of straightforward drunkenness on pure spirits ever witnessed during the generations before prohibition bit itself into the nation's vitals...
...came out again and went south through the Argentine to Asuncion and into Paraguay across the eastern boundary, the Paraguay River. When we got there we told them how there were a lot of Bolivians sitting in forts in the middle of Paraguay, and that vexed them a bit. It was the first they'd heard of it, I guess...
...horns came back with him to the U. S. to make their debuts with the Philharmonic. ... On he goes, swinging his cane, past a cafe door where trombones are moaning measures of La Maxixe. On he goes, past a cathedral, or perhaps the Grand Palais, slackens his pace a bit, then passes by on the other side. On he goes over the bridge to the Left Bank and there he stops again, this time for an Anise de Lozo and following effects are appropriately blurred. A solo violin suggestive of charming broken English is first to clear away the haze...
...fitness for presentation. Sergeant Odell, when interviewed by the CRIMSON reporter, said he had no remarks to make, but it was seen that he had been taking detailed notes. Sergeant Presho was unwilling to make any official statement, but intimated that the play was a little bit rough--it could be smoothed over in places...
There is a prize in every package One can imagine the creative glee that whispers over warming tid-bit: "Get this in," and to those whose job it is to let them see-enough to make them want more the added phrase. "All the windows on the avenue." And they get it in. Excitement, that thermometer of human nature testifies to their success...