Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gollancz' customary well-bred ballyhoo was the Left Book Club. To join, readers had only to pledge that they would buy once a month a cheap special edition of a radical or near-radical book which Victor Gollancz, Ltd. would send them. As usual, Victor Gollancz' competitors bit their quills, wished to blazes they had thought up the idea first...
Sirs I am always interested and occasionally amused at the way the editor of your Sport Department reports nationally interesting athletic events. The occasion for my latest bit of amusement is the comparison of the recent Drake and Penn Relays [TIME, May 4]. This fellow is obviously an Eastern man, or he would not attempt so often to belittle Midwestern and Far-Western events, nor would he show on occasions a total lack of understanding with regard to events held outside the eastern one-sixth of these United States...
...Commission, Joseph Patrick Kennedy went to Europe to rest. Shortly after his return he sat down to write a recapitalization plan for Radio Corp. of America, receiving a fee of $150,000 for his pains (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week Joe Kennedy got another repair job on another cranky bit of corporate machinery...
Spring Note: Archery has finally muscled in at Harvard. The recent discovery of an arrow sticking suspiciously far up in the Lowell House tower can be linked to an equally intriguing bit of news relayed us by one of our spies. While rowing up the river in a shell he was amused to see a shiny new arrow floating downstream followed by another, equally new and every bit as shiny. After really going to town on the problem he learned that they were two of three purchased, together with a "Robin Hood" standard brand bow, from Sears, Roebuck...
There was a time when horns supposed to be those of the fantastic unicorn sold for $12,000 to $150,000 apiece. A powdered bit of genuine unicorn horn was considered the most potent remedy a medieval physician could prescribe. On at least one occasion the tip of a unicorn horn was administered to a dying Pope (TIME, Feb. 25, 1935). Unicorns are described in legends far back into the mists of antiquity. Many men boasted of having seen the creature. All agreed that he was a proud and mighty beast, too wise and fleet to let himself be caught...