Word: bitting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lesser triumphs, such as beating up Bowery toughs, are scarcely worth mentioning. "A remarkable child," you'll say. The fact is that Jane Withers really has a forward, winning way about her, even if her sauey brogue in this picture, on the authority of our Irish friends, is a bit spurious...
...feel most funny when he did ask me for my "license". He, I found, being hard of hearing, I did have an exceedingly difficult time explaining it was not marriage we did want but the nearest gas station. Whereupon, he did close his book, and he was a bit peeved I would think, did show us his phone, and he back to bed. By and by, after much ado, to her home, and I, finally, and very glad at my heart, to the Tower...
...more than a week, too, since the New Deal had begun to grope for an AAA substitute and Mr. Hoover thought the time was opportune to steal a march on the New Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes...
...moon rode high and bright over Turkey one night last week as Islam downed its evening meal. The peasants in the little villages finished their last prostrations toward Mecca, and went out for a breath of the sharp night. Suddenly someone bit a piece out of the moon. The peasants knew instantly what that meant...
There is a bit of Rosicrucian metaphysics in this picture, but love, not it, is the transforming force...