Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice on the ground that the campaign had bred so much bad feeling within Pennsylvania that he was going outside the State to pick a neutral and non-partisan Relief Administrator. Before taking a year's leave of absence from TIME, Administrator-designate Johnson declared: "This is a little bit of public service a fellow can do. It's a big, hard job. though. In fact, it is a tougher job than I ever expected to face. I am literally going into training to tackle it. ... I am a good organizer...
...half page of footnotes for each page to text, one is not given the feeling that it is an inaccurate popularization. Mr. Wilson has obviously made copious use of the original sources and from them he has achieved an excellent picture of his subject. Although one gets a bit tired of hearing the hero referred to as "The Virginian" or Merne, and Thomas Jefferson as the "Sage of Albermarle" the writing is of the calibre which holds the reader's interest and makes the pages turn easily. Occasionally the style becomes a trifle plain and slow, but undoubtedly this will...
...major episode in the life is, of course, the trip up the Missouri River and down the Columbia, and this is drawn from the traveller's own account, so its accuracy cannot be questioned. A good bit of attention is paid to Lewis' friend Clark who seems to have taken more data than the leader himself and at times one begins to wonder if the second in command really did not outshine the chief...
...Richard C. Sullivan '35, from behind the hideous mask of the Narrator, to the final peal of thunder, supplied by the machinations of Whitney Cook, Jr. '36, the Dramatic Club's rendering of Jean Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale" (in translation) at the Repertory Theatre is a fine bit of technique and dramatization...
...George Gershwin: "Long head, shoe-box type. Profile extremely Hittite. Sarsaparilla coloring and a musical haircomb, blown out a bit over ears. Flat cheeks, ironed out, sweeping aggressively into bulging lip and chin. Unanalytical eyes beneath dramatic brows. Smugly aggressive mouth, insensitive, without dubiety. Good-humored, self-confident, able and limited...