Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customs union with Belgium and subjects of Grand Duchess Charlotte mostly think of the Luxembourg franc as interchangeable with Belgium's. They scratched their heads dubiously when the Grand Ducal Govern-ment decided that the Royal Belgian Government's example of 28% devaluation was a bit extreme, proceeded this week to devalue the Luxembourg franc...
Though a court martial case may never be tried again, the sentence and every bit of evidence of every court martial are automatically reviewed by the Lords of the Admiralty, forming in effect the Navy's Supreme Court. They have the power to alter or reverse decisions. Last week the Navy's Lords sat down before a huge bundle of papers to review the Hood & Renown case without advocates, prosecutor or witnesses...
...reputation as a concert singer steadily increased. When in 1931 he gave a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium to an audience trained to appreciate manner and appearance as well as vocal qualities, he made a prodigious impression. He got 18 encores, a screen test that led to bit parts in Dancing Lady and Student Tour before he was chosen for the lead in Naughty Marietta. More amazed than delighted by his sudden success, Baritone Eddy, now 33, plans to continue his concert stage career while performing in cinema. In Manhattan for a concert fortnight ago he gave...
...With a bit of shamrock pinned underneath her dress and a little flat prayer book in the sole of her slipper, Mary Elisabeth Moore, a 21-year-old New Yorker, made her debut last week as the youngest member of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills...
...which probably could not be avoided in any dramatization of the book, and which, in itself, is not serious. That criticism is that the several minor plots woven into the tale have to be treated so briefly that they lose much of their meaning, seeming, in fact, just a bit ridiculous. They have a tendency, in addition, to give the whole the appearance of having been rather sketchily and loosely thrown together. Much of the depth of the story, as experienced by reading the book, is lost; although enough of the tender pathos and bitter struggle and loving adoration...