Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existing government unlawful. An told that the San Simson Scion is going to have his newspapers back the little project. Watch all the leftists howl like the devil. They, who kick at the Supreme Court's power of judicial review will scream for it if this little tid-bit is passed. Your correspondent agrees with them heartily, but is inclined to smile at their feminine inconsistency. "There in lies their charm," we suppose...
...With Counsel Reilly, however, she was pert, not teary. Quizzed about "Red" Johnson, onetime sailor on Thomas Lament's yacht with whom Nurse Gow had been friendly the summer before the kidnapping, she admitted that she had gone to a New Jersey roadhouse with him. The most valuable bit of testimony for the defense ferreted out of Nurse Gow by Counsel Reilly was that on the day of the kidnapping she told Johnson and the servants in the Morrow household at Englewood that she was going to Hopewell...
...married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides like a centaur, drives like a state policeman. He did his bit in the War ("We had slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls in love with him at sight. Conscious of the fact...
...inclined to feel that the ultimate success of the House Plan will depend upon the loyalties which each House can develop among its members. By these loyalties we are not referring to petty rivalries between Houses, but rather to an appreciation that the House means just a little bit more than the collective accomplishments of its individual members; that extra, intangible quantity without which no institution can long exist...
Obviously, it will take some time to develop this esprit de corps, as it were, but perhaps--in time--to live in a House will mean a bit more than a place to study, to eat, and to sleep. Perhaps it already does...