Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretly pleased that the Japanese Government and Ambassador Saito found themselves in hot water, the Administration observed piously that it cannot interfere with the freedom of the U. S. Press. In the offices of Vanity Fair it was hoped for some hours that the State Department might send a bit of suggestion or advice, but mum to Vanity Fair were Secretary Hull and President Roosevelt...
Last week near Albona, Spain, a Rolls-Royce going 87 m.p.h. careened into a culvert, turned over five times. From beneath the wreck were pulled the mangled remains of Prince Alexis Mdivani, divorced husband of Barbara Hutton. His driving companion, a German baroness, bit her tongue off, will never talk again...
...forbid that our boys in khaki will ever again be forced to go into action 3,000 miles from home. But would not diplomatic encouragement to Haile Selassie cause Il Duce to slow up a bit and realize that reason is more useful than the sword? A nation can always be boycotted into submission with less bloodshed and less cost than...
...Banking & Currency was packed with friends of the New Deal and Chairman Fletcher was set as a watch dog over him. Senator Glass refused to be hurried. He insisted on hearing everyone. Unable to outvote his fellow committeemen, he spent two months educating them in the problems of banking. Bit by bit he won them around by logic, bit by bit got Governor Eccles' friends to compromise, bit by bit got the bill changed...
...cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion. His right arm faded into a scene of cruelty and destruction: machine gunners, cannon, the ogre Greed. Most gruesome bit of all was the Demon of Hate, also bisexual, slashing a man's throat...