Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honora Munroe Bruere, 20, daughter of Henry Bruere, president of Manhattan's great Bowery Savings Bank, made her debut in Broadway with a short bit in Post Road. Morning before she told newshawks: "I know that it is not myself attracting attention but it's the fact that I am my father's daughter...
...Rainbow Room customers expected to see a showman last week they were roundly disappointed when quiet Ray Noble conducted his men. His easy gestures were all from the wrist. Occasionally he tapped his foot, sometimes sat at a piano, pattered a bit. He had gathered first-rate U. S. players and, unlike many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager...
...greatest fun at the yearly eisteddfod. In the Chrysler factory Tom Lewis found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis had taught them...
Louis Bromfield, who once excited both critics and readers by his precocious promise and then reneged by turning out thin stuff, last fortnight produced a story that was a bit too thick. Even to readers who know little or nothing about Author Bromfield's own career, The Man Who Had Everything will sound suspiciously like boasting. Not an autobiographical novel, it presents some striking similarities between its hero and its author. Even Bromfield enthusiasts may be shocked at this expression of his high opinion of himself, but readers who have begun to suspect that he is only a literary...
...satisfaction of knowing that nowhere in the world was there a collection of smarter, more successful people. He was tall and well-built. No one could withstand his famous charm. He was the top, and he knew it. But do you suppose Tom was happy? Not a bit of it. Something was lacking. What that something was, Tom was not quite smart enough to figure out. But he felt the need of a change, and decided to get away from it all, moisten the lips and start afresh...