Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part taken by Negroes. As early as 1645 there were free Negroes in New York, and it is common knowledge that the first Negroes in Virginia arrived in 1619, but a few years after the white colonists at Jamestown. In the French and Indian Wars, black men did their bit, and a Negro was first to fall in the War for Independence. They were with Perry at the battle of Lake Erie and they helped Jackson repulse the British at the Battle of New Orleans. The first chief of police of St. Petersburg (now Petrograd) under the Bolshevist regime...
...chosen by a minority of the voters of the State, yet the Presidential votes represent the entire State. Only a student of government or a thoroughly professional politician can explain what the Electoral College actually is and does, the reason being that it has been transformed from an important bit of governmental machinery to an inconspicuous, though still essential, instrument of party politics...
Attorney Serri, fuming, not a bit rueful, retaliated with a letter of complaint to Chief Justice William Howard Taft, copies of which were sent to Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent and the Brooklyn Bar Association. Wrote Mr. Serri: "By indirection, with almost unspeakable vulgarity . . . [Judge Atwell] practically approved and incited the repetition by the officers of such conduct in this city. I doubt whether in all judicial annals there can be found such open incitement to public disorder and breach of the peace as the words of this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge...
Twice Maurice Bokanowski had cheated Death. During the War he served as a lieutenant, received a thought-to-be mortal wound, recovered. Later, in 1916 while he was crossing the Mediterranean on the Provence, she was torpedoed. For ten hours he clung to a bit of wreckage. Finally he was rescued by a lifeboat...
...action lolls a bit at first but is sped up handsomely before the finish by a shooting and a whacking good imitation of a prizefight. The play is the work of Edward E. Paramore, Hyaat Daab, and George Abbott, an able and versatile trio. At the first night Tex Rickard was found babbling enthusiastically in the lobby which produced a rumor to the effect that he was backing the show.* Right beside Ringside will open The Big Fight, starring Tex Rickard's onetime breadwinner, Jack Dempsey, et ux.; thus providing theatre-goers with an example of dramatic coincidence...