Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week of every composition course, especially English A. It contains a number of amiably generalized complaints about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review of John Strachey's "The Menace of Fascism" is the ablest bit of journalism in the issue, but is content to leave the book unanalyzed, and without comment...
Leslie Howard is the same polished and svelte being though at times his interpretation of unnatural is a bit excruciating. And Heather Angel, acting for Helen Pettigrew, is both very good and very real and renders the lachrymose delicately, but yet not too heavily. All in all "Berkeley Square" is a delightful and attractive production...
Three weeks ago Arnold Schönberg landed in the U. S., surprised everyone by being a shy, mild little man not a bit fierce or radical in his comments on music or German politics. This week Schönberg classes began in Boston and New York. Paying pupils were few. Some 50 would-be composers had sent in scores, hoping to win scholarships offered by Stokowski, George Gershwin, Mrs. A. Lincoln Filene of Boston and the Steinway and Knabe Piano Companies. But if it was impossible to prophesy what importance Schönberg would have as a teacher...
...World-Telegram's campaign to elect LaGuardia started in earnest the day he got the nomination. Every possible bit of political color and prejudice was thrown into the news reports. Everything except the municipal election promptly subsided on the editorial page. The thundering oratory of Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's daily drawings had only one subject during the last four weeks of the campaign...
...Cutten volunteered: "When the market goes off a little bit, we buy and then the market goes up. . . . When the market goes up we sell...