Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...
...First Lord Sir Samuel had spectacular "sham battles" fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...
...about the observers I send out to the stations," commented Dr. Abbot. "They must have tact, trustworthiness, a ready knowledge of physics, and be able to get along with each other. For they must remain practically isolated from the world for three years at a time. That is a bit too long and something will have to be done about keeping them at their stations for shorter times...
...Atlanta, Jack Bone, aged 17 months, came upon an eight-inch snake in his back yard, bit it, killed it. Bundled off to a hospital, Jack Bone was pronounced unharmed...
...scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power and potential social importance that it cannot be missed. Accompanying this excellent picture is a stupid, slow-moving, puerile bit of Hollywood drivel which calls itself "Speed" and commands attention solely for its almost unopposed candidacy for this year's prize lemon...