Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stop Landon/- CandidateVandenberg took the spotlight one day by announcing in Washington that he would refuse the Vice Presidential nomination, thereby killing Kansas' hopes of a Landon-Vandenberg ticket. Two days later the Michigan Senator arrived in Cleveland, primed to add his bit to the dying "Stop Landon" movement. Oldtime Senator Moses, manager for Candidate Knox, spluttered angrily about Landon attempts to stampede "a deliberative assembly" and "frighten" delegates by extravagant claims of strength. By radio the New Hampshire Old Guardsman boomed: "This is a crisis and it must be treated as such. It must be dealt with...
...budget is God-controlled. There is a real thrill and purpose in teas and dinner parties"-Mrs. Howard Reynolds. "I took time off from studying the part to listen to what God had to tell me. All fear of competition vanished"-Marion Clayton Anderson, bit player in Mutiny on the Bounty...
...told his guests to illustrate his contention that Patagonia was a man's country: a favorite Indian pick-me-up for a hangover was a mixture of raw liver, heart, kidneys and blood of a guanaco (llama-like native antelope). When two men were having a fight, one bit off the other's ear; the earless man got his opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that he was sorry...
...particular bit of political strategy also required the President's attention. Aware that partisans were charging that his scheduled speech at Little Rock, Ark. during the Republican Convention at Cleveland was timed to steal radio attention from his political opponents, Franklin Roosevelt had Secretary Stephen Early write to Columbia and National Broadcasting: the President did not want the broadcasting of his speech to interfere with the Convention's time...
...dosage every week of their last two years of college---and they do all of the teaching themselves, and like it! Under the direction of famed research man Dr. Donald A. Laird, the students prepare, lead and present their own discussions---but he does have to do a bit of refereeing when the arguments get too hot. COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents here in "picture and paragraph" some of the unusual features of these seminars...