Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must also be admitted that the body of the victor is not too carefully drawn. The large muscle in the right armpit is unfortunately exaggerated, and both deltoids have not been given the treatment they deserve on a well-muscled body. The referee's body, too, is a bit out of proportion...
...talked with Colonel Lindbergh about ten minutes and I could tell he wouldn't do a thing like that. His knowledge of aviation and his value as a technical adviser was worth every nickel that he got. He would have been worth every bit of it even if he'd never flown in his life...
...private ends. In the first place, as an economic measure the bill's validity is practically nil, since the present number of foreign actors in the United States is surely not so enormous as to hinder the possible employment of local talent now out of work. Even as a bit of private weaseling the bill is pitifully transparent. On the one hand, it is a sop to the actors who insist that something must be done for domestic incompetents now out of jobs, and in its magnanimous provision that the presence of distinguished foreign artists in America will be tolerated...
Every editor and every man with sufficient courage to write letters to the press (in defiance of the American belief that anyone who does so is fit for a lunatic asylum) can do his bit of the "job" whereof Nemesis despairs...
...What his next move is going to be is, I think, fairly clearly adumbrated by the rumors which are being spread--and there is no doubt under whose auspices the spreading is being done. The main rumor has it that there may be a Hapsburg restoration; but circulating a bit more surreptitiously is another rumor, that in order to prepare Austria for the restoration, Prince Starhemberg may find it necessary to proclaim himself Regent as Admiral Horthy did in Hungary...