Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tennis world, there are about five blokes who are as good as each other. In order to win. a bloke needs a bit of luck...
...looking model at Chanel's and who loyally bore him two children in the face of his impudent infidelities knew anything important about his machinations, except that he was a crook. Yet because she had once had possession of the bundle of check stubs which is the most notorious bit of Stavisky evidence to date she was clapped into La Petite Roquette prison last March, and there she has remained, except for a few brief excursions to testify behind locked doors before examining magistrates and parliamentary investigating commissions. Those who caught a fleeting glimpse...
...took over the reins of the Freshman eleven last year and brought an involved Notre Dame system to them for the first time. The intricacy of the plays held the youngsters back for a while but when the steam-roller started, the destruction was terrific. Dartmouth and Yale both bit the dust on the short side of a very long score. Lamar, the Varsity boxing coach will be coaching his first year of Freshman football.SHAUN KELLY, JR. '36, considered likely All-American material. Injuries kept him out of several games last season...
...hundred and eight convicts escaped from North Carolina prisons and prison camps last month. Each day into the office of the Durham Herald-Sun ticked A. P. dispatches from Raleigh naming the runaways, giving details. For 24 July days Telegraph Editor John R. Barry bit his pencil for a new headline to put over such repetitious news. By the 25th he gave up and subheaded "TODAY'S ESCAPES" over the Raleigh dispatch. By last week "TODAY'S ESCAPES" had become one of the most familiar standing heads in the Herald-Sim. Under it last week was chronicled...
This spring there was a novelty to be seen at a north London amusement park. It was no great success, but cockneys with a sixpenny bit could get into a tent and gawp at a gaunt, hollow-eyed woman with stringy dark hair sitting in a barrel. She was billed as "The Fasting Woman." Last week the bony body of the Fasting Woman lay behind a screen in the charity ward of a London hospital. A card was clipped over her bed: "NORINE LATTIMORE. . . . Born: Doughty St., London 1894. . . . Cause of death: cancer. . . ." Thus ended the career of Dolores...