Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sterling is not only an artist in the maintenance of non-existent suspense; he has been the man who, when the Watch and Ward allowed a bit of literary seepage, put his finger in the dike until the police had a chance to follow his suggestion of proscribing the subtly indecent book. The waters of obscenity have roared without, but Mr. Sterling has not been daunted. In Harvard Square, long stigmatized as the capital of Massachusetts pornographia, he found but one objectionable book, which was withdrawn with the bookseller's apology that it was on sale only because...
...pretty bit of ceremony to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the United States first treaty, or as a fitting, if anticlimactical, acknowledgement of Lindbergh's accomplishments in diplomacy, the peace pact signed simultaneously yesterday in Washington and Paris was most successful. As an effective measure to destroy any possibility of Franco-American hostilities, it may be said to order on the inane. For it, covers all bellicose situations except "as such disputes related to the Monroe Doctrine, France's obligations under the covenant of the League of Nations, domestic questions, . . . or questions affecting a third party...
...previously the Right Honorable and irrepressible "Galloper Smith" of the House of Commons, could scarcely have been unaware last week, that his elder daughter, Lady Eleanor Smith, had so far departed from the family tradition of wit as to pen for a London newspaper the following bit of groveling gossip: "A friend of mine has just had installed a type of bath tub which will permit her to receive guests of both sexes while bathing. . . . The bath has a gorgeously all-concealing top. . . . She has already given a preliminary party at which I was not present...
...name will always draw a big audience; take Fanny Ward for instance, the house was sold out, but when the people left the theatre they all felt a bit vicious about having come, and yet they'll attend again the next night. Yes, a good name means a great deal in our line of business...
...itself. Noisely the student grinds his axe each day in the mail column, but on the fiftieth anniversary his appreciation comes, no less sincere because student reticence on such occasions makes men like Dean Warren his spokesman: "News editorials, communications, and other features--they are entertaining, instructive, sometimes a bit irritating, but how we should miss them if they were to stop...