Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told them very impressively that a whopping story was about to break at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. What was it? He would not even hint. All he would say was that the President had written a letter to a member of Congress. With this valuable bit of information the Press was left until Representative Sam Hill of Washington made public a letter he had received from the White House...
...This bit from H.R.H. was all to the good, but His Majesty's Government recently permitted their British Broadcasting Corp. to do full justice to the great issue What Is An Englishman? Employed to answer was brilliant Harold Nicolson, son of Edward VII's late great Ambassador to St. Petersburg, Sir Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. Son Nicolson today is perhaps the Empire's most entertaining biographer of statesmen recently deceased, from his own father to Lord Curzon. Broadcast...
...Columbus, Ind. banker named William G. Irwin had a chauffeur named Clessie Lyle Cummins. When Mr. Irwin went to Canada for the summer, Chauffeur Cummins decided he ought to "do his bit" to help the U. S. win the War. He converted the Irwin garage into a workshop, began turning out wagon hubs for the Government. By the time Mr. Irwin got back to Columbus, Chauffeur Cummins had the garage running as a full-fledged factory with three eight-hour shifts...
...Bishop's Rock was 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, thus decisively disposing of Bremen's 4 day-16 hour-15 minute record (Ambrose Lightship to Cherbourg, a 200-mile longer course) for the eastward crossing. As Normandie neared Havre every house seemed to be flying a bit of the Atlantic's speed blue ribbon which the world's largest ship had won for France. Amid tears, cheers and sirens, the world's fourth largest seaplane, also French, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, thundered out from Havre to circle over Normandie, its passengers peering down from...
Some Chicagoans still think that President Hutchins' manner has hurt the University, that the town might have done more for the gown during Depression if he had been a bit more mellow. Friends and philosophers, however, are glad that Bob Hutchins has escaped the fate which Critic Carl Van Doren ascribes to Author Christopher Morley: "He got mellow before he got ripe...