Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appreciation that I feel from the depth of my heart, for the wonderful article in March issue of FORTUNE on the subject of "Arms and the Men." I feel that your courage in this matter is doing more to set forward the cause of world peace than any single bit of literary endeavor that has been released...
...idea originated with the manufacturers of ten-cent cigarettes who are finding the increased costs brought about by NRA and the Processing taxes a bit too hard for them, something they did not anticipate when they started a vigorous price war in June, 1932--and now they are pleading with the government to let them have a lower rate of taxes by the simple device of classifying cigarettes according to selling prices. These ten-cent cigarette makers insist they would pass on some of the reduction to the consumer...
...evening last week the little U. S. gunboat Fulton, carrying a complement of 186 officers and men under Commander Harry D. McHenry, was cruising in as ugly a bit of water as lies off the coast of China. Bias Bay, 50 miles northeast of Hongkong, is notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped...
...youthful person who could act as well as sing. During her first years in opera her fa ther never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly...
...which can satisfy no one for very long: this poker-playing parliamentarian is plainly not cut out for the Strong Man which events both foreign and domestic foreshadow. The dizzy succession of cabinets has played into the hands of the fascist element, and the Royalists have contributed their little bit to the general unrest and dissatisfaction, though they are in a hopeless minority as far as independent action is concerned. It would not be surprising if the fascists won them over, as in Germany, by promises later easily annulled. The plight of the Left Wing is particularly acute in such...