Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly I don't possess the true "sportsman's" sense of consistency, but I find it a bit difficult to follow your article under Conservation (TIME...
...Government done to assure the defense of our liberties?" roared M. Blum. "There is an open and public conspiracy against our republican institutions! What has the Government done to safeguard them against seditious leagues?" During all this the Premier continued to draw lines back & forth on his bit of paper, but Socialist Blum did get one rise out of Independent Laval. "I am sure," sneered M. Blum, "that if you had been able to do so you would have promulgated your budget by decree instead of convoking the Chamber!" M. Laval, his eyes narrowing a trifle, shot back: "That...
...Neill's play about an adolescent taking his first look at the grown-up world of 1906. Ah Wilderness! is notable also for one of those curiosities of billing that cinema contracts sometimes bring about. Wallace Beery, billed as the star, plays what amounts to an expanded bit-part. He is Uncle Sid, affable and alcoholic parasite who sponges a living in the family of Nat Miller, smalltown newspaper publisher. Nat Miller is played by Lionel Barrymore whose part, though written down considerably from the play, is still an important one and who gets second billing. The real lead...
...partial scheme was tried last year in order that Freshmen might have a look at the Houses before they made their formal choices. The administrative difficulties were easily and effectively handled, since the difference in the meal rates--$8 and $8.50--amounted to only a slight bit over 2 cents per meal...
...prominent but equally ineffective pieces of legislation. The gentlemen on Capitol Hill, as has been customary with them, showed an admirable good will, adopted a purpose with which most of the country could agree, and then sank under the dead weight of their own mediocrity. Instead of taking the bit between the teeth and actually determining just what implements of war, are, they acknowledged their own lack of initiative and turned over to the executive the task and responsibility of drawing up the vital list...