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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every bit as sound in its child psychology as the less wholesome Children's Hour (TIME, Dec. 3). Birthday boasts a stageful of convincing actors. As Irene. Antoinette Cellier repeats her London success, is a properly moody adolescent. Producers Harmon & Ullman have provided a fairly credible London scene which will be completely so when they tear the NRA label out of Baba's school coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...didn't give a Cape Horn damn" about quitting the sea, later confessed he hated to leave it. Of the future he said: "I shall do just what my wife wants me to, as you married men know. . . . I've told her to buy me a bit of a bungalow near a graveyard and I shall sit me on a tombstone and read epitaphs in search of a new philosophy. . . . When I'm not reading tombstones . . . I'll get me to the nearest pub and try to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Binks's Last | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...Statesman and Head Play, will run for the biggest purse ($100,000 added) offered this year. Lest these facts escape the attention of the U. S. sporting public, Cinemactress Marian Marsh last fortnight visited Santa Anita to have herself photographed with Head Play. Annoyed by her posturings, Head Play bit her on the shoulder. Last week, apparently less dismayed by Miss Marsh's experience than encouraged by the commotion it caused, Cinemactress Inez Courtney visited the track to hang an enormous wreath on Twenty Grand. Twenty Grand failed to oblige the photographers and pressagents by taking so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Santa Anita | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...filled by the highly amusing machinations of Vincent Palmer and his marionettes who stage the new famous fight between Gale Noyes and Charles Apted, the noted slenth. Mr. Apted's famed perceptiveness failed him upon this occasion and when Gale called his attention to his shoe-laces the Colonial bit and received the blow that counted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/21/1934 | See Source »

Well, the conference has broken up. We have not even achieved the semblance of our original purpose--limitation. All a bit irritated, the conferees have retired to their respective camps. The made race is on. Good luck to the taxpayers! Alfred M. Nittle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/19/1934 | See Source »

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