Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About a year ago he deviated a bit from his usual "hot" numbers and varied his program with such "smooth" selections as his popular "Moon Glow." This was done to add rather more respectability and finesse to his program, as well as cater to audiences other than those composed of adolescents...
Though he led a more public life after the War, as befitted Germany's foremost novelist, did his bit for reconstruction by lecturing in Paris, served as president of the Bavarian section of the German Authors Society and signed a cable pleading for executive clemency in the Scottsboro case, he joined no party, stayed away from social and political functions. When the Nazi broom began to sweep Germany clean of non-"Aryans," "Aryan" Thomas Mann picked up his household goods and left. Resigned to permanent exile, he says: "As a German. I can understand what has happened...
...should not have professed a belief in America's ideals, in American etiquette, and then so grossly broken them by making your bribe public, by giving your letter to the press before it reached President Conant. Was this consistent with sincere, alumna generosity? Isn't it just a bit too obvious? Certainly, Herr Hanfstaengl, for one who represents the wiles of European diplomacy, your methods are remarkably crude. Can Harvard accept your offer under all these conditions? If it does, it will be an eye-opener to more than one trusting American. Charles L. Whipple, Allen K. Philbrick...
This afternoon, on the one bit of "Old Yale," Sophomores and Freshmen will gather together for the solemn occasion of the handing on of the Yale Fence. In these days of tradition-killing transition it behooves Sophomores and Freshmen not only to enjoy the ceremony, but to look beyond it to the more weighty significance of the Fence Orations...
...merry undergraduates are enthuslastic about those changes in exams, probation, and attendance that the College has made. Possibly they are a bit too Bolshevistic. Anyway, the following remark was made by an apparently abused oarsman the other day: "Say, I'm going to sue the College before they have nothing but a few optional lectures to offer a guy. These days a fellow has got to get his money's worth...