Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once Variety's prognostication was wholly wrong. For producer and author The Green Pastures proved not only an artistic but a financial Heaven on earth. Marc Connelly had put a little bit of everything dramatically good into his white man's idea of a black man's idea of the Bible stories. Audiences split their sides laughing at the play's account of Genesis, in which "de Lawd," wanting to provide "firmament" for the custard at a celestial fish fry, makes too much, has to create the Earth as a place to "dreen it off." Spectators...
Struthers Burt was there, and Fannie Hurst, William Rose Benét, Margaret Widdemer, Burton Rascoe, Henry Seidel Canby. Many a guest had won a gold or silver badge or at least honorable mention for a snapshot, drawing or bit of verse published by "St. Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth...
...flight in the teeth of a Labrador blizzard. By this time, however, Miss Campion's invulnerability to Dinsmore's attacks is perceptibly on the wane and when the escape ends in a circuitous return to the radio hut she is easily persuaded that it's a bit extreme to marry Sir James merely because he happened to be around when she chose to do a bit of drowning in Naples. Things are temporarily complicated by the arrival of Clara Wilson, Dinsmore's erstwhile fiancee, but her marital designs are quickly shifted to Sir James and all concludes in highly satisfactory...
...prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this notion gave rise to no little scandal, no one managed to trap the elusive beast by virgins or otherwise. A bit of unicorn horn ground to powder was regarded by a medieval physician as the most potent remedy he could administer, but because undisputed horns turned up so rarely the price ranged from...
...which Miss Bennett and some socialite friends of hers are involved. She is working for Mr. Gable's paper and is alternately hired and fired as his moods dictate. Finally he himself is fired for breaking a somewhat slandercus story about his girl reporter's society companions. Doing a bit of free lance journalistic detective work with the help of Stuart Erwin, he finally wrings a confession from a scoundrel of society and then completes the job by marrying Miss Bennett at four in the morning. All very nice, if it weren't followed quite so soon by Arthur Martel...