Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition, ultimately. The only trouble is that Premier Flandin seeks dollar-pound-franc stabilization now. He is the storekeeper who has not cut prices. While the other two deplore the unquestionably bad effects of present world money chaos, each hopes to gain brief advantage by prolonging it just a bit more. Last week only highest powered optimists hoped that a money stabilizing pact would be hatched by the Premier and Prime Minister in London...
...actors became less important. Occasionally, however, certain transitions in the news narrative did require special shots. Thus the Prince Saionji sequence was briefly filled out in Manhattan by a helpful Japanese whose resemblance to the Last of the Genro is so close that few laymen can detect the synthetic bit...
Elliott Roosevelt, second son of the President, did his bit as an executive of the National Aeronautic Association by trying to get General Hugh S. Johnson to direct, Edsel Ford and Philip K. Wrigley to back a North-&-South-American Air Derby modeled on the Mildenhall-to-Melbourne race...
...Yugoslavian version the prodigal's mother and sister did the murder, the mother hanged herself, the sister threw herself into a well. The A. P. dispatch, however, added one new bit of journalistic invention: "The 10,000 dinars will pay for a triple funeral...
...which defeated Bonaparte at Waterloo. Physically, of course, he does not come up to the heroic proportions with which we have mentally endowed the great general, and when he totteringly asseverates that he is "a soldier, not a politician," we somehow assume that Disraeli is indulging in a charming bit of modesty. The real Wellington would have been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious about the brewing of his tea, perhaps more brusque and profane at the council table. And then a soldier must be a man who is willing to throw thousands...