Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely at the first opportunity. To Friends, however, the Old Quaker still looks pretty big and bibulous. Friend Malcolm Read Lovell, authorized by a Manhattan Quaker meeting to study the problem, suggested a boycott-by others. For an effective boycott of a whiskey by teetotaling Quakers was a bit of a problem. Mr. Lovell's solution: to circularize other churches, civic clubs, Rotarians, Kiwanis, Lions, fraternal organizations, sportsmen's clubs, with an explanation of Quaker ideals, urging them to do the Quakers' boycotting for them...
...easy mastery of its two principals. Cinemactors Cagney and Raft, the screen's two deadliest Ruffie MacTuffies, have been friends ever since they began their careers as vaudeville hoofers in Manhattan in the 205. Cagney was responsible for one of Raft's earliest cinema parts, a dancing bit in Cagney's Taxi. Their appropriate reunion, also celebrating their return to the gangster movies where they belong, is a fierce slugfest in handcuffs...
Last year, when asked why he named his lovely new sloop Goose (reputedly a foolish fowl), 61-year-old Sailor Nichols chirped: "Because it seems a bit foolish to go into the keen six-meter competition at my age." Last week George Nichols demonstrated that he and his Goose were anything but foolish: they outsmarted the Scandinavians at their own game in their home waters, won the Gold Cup in three straight races for the second year in a row. On both sides of the Atlantic, Goose was hailed as the world's fastest small boat, George Nichols...
...refused to attack England while it lasted. A year of frontline duty and two-wounds deepened his cynicism; in 1920 he abandoned England and returned to Australia. Ten years later he exhibited a series of brilliantly bitter etchings in Manhattan (TIME, May 4, 1931). Last year he died, a bit too soon to boast of his prophetic vision...
...President Sophie Tucker, stout trouper who is widely regarded as a lovable prop executive, held an A. F. A. meeting to get a vote of confidence. Miss Tucker wept, a blonde bit another actor, there was a free-for-all and no vote of confidence. Last week as the A. F. A. trial opened, Miss Tucker, other executives and A. F. A. lawyers walked out on it, charging that it was packed and illegal...