Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts of many a German to explain his magnetic power over great audiences Orator Hitler contributed last week this disarming bit of candor...
...roar of laughter followed his reading of the first two paragraphs, followed by even more hearty enjoyment as he followed down the page. "The adjective is a bit unfortunate," he bellowed, pointing out the "bombastic" with which he was characterized, "but all the rest is true...
...position at the Gay Nineties, that incredible age which refused to recognize the existence of a lady's by on the main through fare, but which maintained a segregated district running full blast in a back alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts by slipping furtively down to the Old Howard Athenaeum (take subway to Scollay Square, walk down to Howard Street...
...receiving its O. K. does the Treasury wipe off the debt in question the amount of the gift. Biggest contribution thus far was from a Jugoslav who left his entire estate, all of it tied up in property, to vindicate Jugoslavia which has welched $825,000. Selling the property bit by bit, the Treasury had realized $1,100 up to last week. Next largest contribution: $1,000 from the estate of a Frenchman who died in Massachusetts...
...night I arrayed myself in all my jewels and made a tour of the Moscow night clubs. I was watched constantly by two Soviet detectives and a very nice young man from the United States Consulate. It was a bit bloodcurdling, but I went bravely through with it. There was no envy of the gems I wore in the eyes of those who observed them in Moscow that night. There was only hate. It seemed to revive the memory of old Russia in them and often that night I could almost feel the guillotine at my throat. They hated...