Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call attention to a couple of your statements in the July 16 issue relative to the labor situation on the Pacific Coast, which might be a bit misleading to some of your readers...
...Boynton Priestley still talks in his broad, matter-of-fact native accent. At the outbreak of the War he enlisted as a private, emerged in 1918 as an .officer. In his three years at Cambridge he "was always faintly uncomfortable, being compelled to feel?and quite rightly too?a bit of a lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News. The resounding success of The Good Companions...
...Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly accumulating evidence that Tories are not only men of sense but often men of sensibility as well...
...beginning of this picture, Nick Charles (William Powell) says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when...
...world. A 50-acre park opened in 1931. it is arranged for the comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence around the lion pit. Obligingly after...