Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud of his 52 years in the Secret Service, proud that, since its organization in 1861, his secret police system has never had a scandal. Chief Moran is the one man in the U. S. who can, by law, boss the President. He recalls that Woodrow Wilson bridled a bit at first at the precautions taken for him by the Secret Service. But the only Secret Service charge completely to defy the organization to date is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. She stead fastly refuses a bodyguard, although her son James's family has one to protect her grandchild...
...progressive organization is, too, possessed of an unfortunate type of speaker, (one exception proved the rule) hardly felicitous of accent or manner. Until the group offers men a bit more representative of the student body as a whole, serious attention will surely be withheld. As for the M.M.C. & M.C., Lucius Beebe sends his best congratulations on "esprit de corps." And as for the NSL, try, try again. A weekly mass meeting would be welcomed by friend and foe of the Cause, alike. Hyde Park redivivus promises instruction and amusement for young and old. And let the watchword...
...high cheek-bones and rasping voice that brought Miss Hepburn notice in her early productions seem to have faded a bit into the background. It is a good thing. A bit of extra weight looks well on her and the softer voice will increase the range of her eligible roles...
...military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question. None of them minded a bit giving a diplomatic kick to those dogs of Greece...
...postcards, magazine covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks, pigeons, Chinese junks and a group portrait of the Dutch Royal Family...