Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White-haired and purse-mouthed, Harry Chandler is a teetotaler, eschews all forms of exercise except mowing the lawn a bit. When the first drop of perspiration runs down his nose, he quits. He has eight children, four of whom work for the Times. He is still at 71 a good trader. A rock-ribbed Republican and great personal friend of Herbert Hoover, he made Democratic Los Angeles pay him well for the inconvenience of moving one block up First Street last week into the fine new Times building...
...Homer Alvan Rodeheaver. Beforehand, C. E.'s Vice President William Hiram Foulkes had written in The Presbyterian: "These Endeavorers are a colorful, cheerful crowd. They march with badges and banners and with singing hearts. If any one is inclined to chide them because at times they appear a bit too noisy, let him remember that it is a 'joyful noise' that they are making, and that they are making it 'unto the Lord...
...posture. Finally I said, 'For God's sake, can't you be human and talk for once like a human being?' And what do you suppose this guy said, without changing his dead-pan expression ?'Begging your pardon, sir, but here in England we're all a bit of a snob.' So that was that...
Fearful on the eve of his 96th birthday lest two front teeth would have to be extracted because he bit a cherry pit four years ago, John D. Rockefeller Sr. visited his dentist. Reassured to learn that his 19 teeth were all sound, he quietly celebrated his birthday on his 500-acre estate near Lakewood, N. J. Biggest Rockefeller birthday present was $5,000,000 in cash representing the face value of his insurance policies. The money was returned to him because he had outlived the actuarial tables, which do not go above...
...Maria Metten, daughter of the Chief of Police of Namur, Belgium. A mezzo-soprano, she sang in church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting...