Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen would be difficult to demand of any two feature movie programs. "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has been justly praised for its spectacular melodrama, picturesquely framed against the forbidding north Indian mountain passes. Very roughly adapted from the successful book of similar title, it proves an exciting bit of pageantry capably acted by a cast which includes Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Dick Cromwell, and Kathleen Burke...
...eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful it may signify the beginning of an athletic renaissance. In any event, if doughnuts for breakfast have been substituted for hockey rinks we should not look the gift horse in the face. Appreciation and proper competitive spirit demand that a Cambridge man throw...
...third novel in a series of four this latest work from the pen of Vardis Fisher is a noteworthy bit of fiction. It is not startling but intensely alive and vivid in its descriptive passages. A morbid and depressing atmosphere pervades the pages and often the effect upon the reader is a disagreeable one. It is due in part to the subject matter and in part to the author's treatment which is never light, gay, or whimsical. Always his style is heavily laden with emotionalism and morbidity...
This duty will fall on the shoulders of Dick Fletcher and Charley Kollinites, the Crimson's stellar guards who have been bearing the brunt of both attack and defense since bad luck jumped up and bit the Feslermen some weeks ago. Hopes are entertained that Jack Mason, Sophomore forward who has shown notable improvement, will be able to dent the Gothamite's iron-clad defense for some few tallies...
...rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet in honor of a few feeble old cigarmakers who still remembered...