Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolboy's but within three years he had written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports, the Pro Arte Quartet from Belgium and the Roth Quartet from Budapest, decided that his was virile U. S. music which was well worth playing...
...surgeons' convention also provided plenty of good, sound, workaday surgery. For weeks California surgeons had been saving up their extraordinary cases to demonstrate their virtuosity to their visiting fellows. Sightseers repaid the local surgeons by giving them many a wise bit of counsel, among which were the following...
Said Miss Leaver: "I'm a bit modest. Even if I did pose in a bathing suit, you know how people will talk. ... I don't think a little drapery will hurt...
...more purely dramatic course on the menu presents a wide variety of plays. With malice toward none we shall ramble alphabetically. "Children's Hour" carries over from last season with two magnificent acts of stirring drama in a boarding school for young ladies, one of whom knows a bit too much about the "facts." "Dead End," by Sidney Kingsley of "Men in White" renown, opened recently and has been hailed as a masterful drama of New York life and its social problems. Priestley's "Eden End" is a comedy which is funny, but not quite uproariously so. "The Night...
...Persian Room at the Plaza; and there's Jimmy Kelly's in Greenwich--but don't take your best girl. There's gayety and there's music and an excellent show at the Cotton Club; then again, there's the Salvation Army. Try the Russian Kretchma for a bit of foreign atmosphere; you'll find Ozzie Nelson at the Lexington...