Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship, in titular custody of a young Third Secretary of Embassy and watched over by traveling correspondents. While the ship was at Casablanca he suffered a brief heart attack, but otherwise his health was good for a man of 74. He talked readily enough with fellow passengers, groused a bit at being photographed, read a good deal, was delighted to get back copies of the Saturday Evening Post in Sicily. Apparently he worried little over what lay ahead until the last day or two before landing. When he spoke of himself he philosophized like many a retired businessman: "I never...
...National Student League's members had successfully made fools of themselves individually up until yesterday. Yesterday the N. S. L. successfully made a fool of its collective self by sanctioning the publication of such a stupid bit of writing...
...about horses themselves are a strange mixture of sentimentality and practicality. "I love horses," he says, "and I'll always breed them. They're like children, needing the same care and treatment, subject to all sons of ailments. . . ." He thinks he was fondest of a filly named Bit of White, whose only claim to fame was a track record at Louisville. "She was like a bit of Dresden china, a friendly, intelligent, perfectly mannered little lady...
That lumbering hulk, American justice, which is sometimes fortunate enough to crawl within seven years of its shadow and which has long since all hered in to disgrace abroad is undergoing another bit of humiliation in the courthouse at Dedham these days...
...latest bit of obstruction that the conniving minds of money-in-the-hand barristers can plot to hinder the movements of the notorious snail is the presentation of evidence to prove that Abe Faber is a schizomaniac. Now don't let that word stop you as it must have choked the 12 tried and true men who go to make up the Millen-Faber jury. For uninformed souls, schizomania is a cute little word for that ultra-modern disease, a "split personality." At this point, one thing seems certain. The effect that the mention of this alphabetical masterpiece would have...