Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vacationers last week were given an ugly warning to take their gas masks with them to the sea shore. But Bulldog Spirit can bring a bit of beautification even to A. R. P., as Mr. C. W. Milsom of Barnsbury, London, has demonstrated. Mr. Milsom, a backyard esthete, has prettied up the corrugated iron bomb shelter lent him (rent free) by the Government. The shelter's roof has been converted into a rock garden, a horseshoe ornaments the entrance, Christmas tree lights are strung inside. Presumably the rococo goldfish tank on the roof will be taken inside in case...
...money they borrow. Last week he told a House committee that ending the tax exemption would destroy the credit of U. S. municipalities. More interesting than his arguments was his threat: "If you tax the bonds of the City of New York, I'll tax every bit of real estate the Federal Government owns in New York. And I'll collect...
This revolutionary announcement brought many a "Hear! Hear!" from Reptonians (who said a fellow looked a bit of a chump walking over the Derbyshire moors in black-and-stripes), but startled Britain's other public schools. When a reporter for London's Daily Mail visited Eton to break the news, he found Etonians horrified at the suggestion that they change their traditional garb...
...Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites, became the rage of Mayfair in no time. He whooped as he entered drawing rooms, smoked two cigars at once, picked his teeth with ostentation. Once he scuttled quickly across the floor, bit his hostess' pretty daughter...
...Although it may be depriving its readers of a bit of information which they have been accustomed to find in the press, the Courant is now omitting to mention in its obituary columns the nature of the disease or ailment to which death was attributable. . . . If we can make through the policy here announced a small contribution to the peace of mind of those who foster gloomy predictions we shall be well satisfied...