Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competent Hoover biography, a section of Hoover quotations and excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...
Nominator Roosevelt wiped up this bit of political mud with a public statement: "Full accommodation was provided for me and my family in the Assembly Chamber, but as I reached Albany late and walking up many steps in a slow process, it was easier and cooler to listen to the speeches outdoors...
Said Mrs. Hannah Andrews, of Brooklyn : "He was a lovely man, so gay and happy, never minding his comedown in the world a bit. I'll never forget the day he brought home a saxophone. Just like a child, the way he took it up. He was one of my best boarders...
...David Lubin, his elegant nephew who arrives from Australia. The clan has become decadent and these two are about to go bankrupt, for some reason, when word arrives that another and hitherto forgotten relative has died in the Antipodes, leaving them a fortune. Thus convinced that blood is a bit thicker than water, the supposedly comic relatives shake hands all around and the play is over...
...anyway in the heroine of his youth, his older wife, Murasaki* of the versatile wit and mature charm. "Coming from the presence of younger women, such as Nyosan, Genji always expected that Murasaki would appear to him inevitably (and he was willing to make allowance for it) a little bit jaded, a trifle seared and worn. . . . But as a matter of fact it was just these younger women who failed to provide any element of surprise, whereas Murasaki was continually astounding him . . . her clothes scented with the subtlest and most delicious perfumes...