Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biting and amusing satire on the devious methods of the New Deal, it grows into a subtle and persuasive indictment of some of the more annoying phases of our social attitude. Toward the end of the performance the attack became vigorous, and seemed to make the assembled gentry a bit unhappy, but Boston first night audiences cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic at this discomforting anti-Beacon Hillism. This preaching tendency will no doubt be modified as the run goes on; Monday night's presentation was obviously a tryout...
...Gleefully the Press printed each bit of circumstantial evidence, each fiery retort. But one important bit of Myrtle Sands's discovery, Mae West could not deny: the names of the bride's parents in the Milwaukee certificate-John West and Matilda Dilker-were indeed the names of the parents of America's Sweethot...
British diplomacy's most potent role during the War was in rationalizing the obviously illegal practices of the Allied blockade of Germany. The Allied fleets destroyed U. S.. trade with the Central Powers, then with neutrals, abrogated the Declaration of London bit by bit, in flagrant violation of international law. In reply to U. S. protests Britain insisted that all these measures were "essential to our existence." Writer Millis: "As long as that plea carried weight with our statesmen and the corresponding plea from Germany did not, the U. S. was unavoidably a silent partner of the Entente...
...questionnaire enclosed copies of the Wednesday menus in the House Dining Halls, and the men were asked to check off all dishes of which they partook. As no dish was unanimously chosen by the sufferers, the possibility of a polluted bit of steak, tomato juice, or something of that nature was obviated...
...spirit is the scientific dissection of that anigmatic animal, the parlor pink, with an explanation of how he happened to get into the parlor in the first place. "Publish of Perish" shouts forth from the Elliothousetope the atrocitties practiced upon the HArvard faculty in a bit of muckraking of which Upton Sinclair himself could be proud. Not even the short stories have been allowed to slip into a flaccid groove, as so many of the capitalistic short stories have the habit of doing. One tale of a Kansas kindergarten teacher who loses a first-class virginity on a third-class...