Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them away and after an interval bring them out again and have them made over. She also sent me two rings, a pair of earrings, some white jade, a white fox coat, and an ermine coat. The Chinese had a very proper idea of gifts!" And a bit of really ancient history: ". . . Instead of saying nothing and letting Nick go to the dinner, I told him the horrid news of the seating, whereat he promptly said he would not go, that he was very glad to get out of the despised dry dinner, using as an excuse 'the slight...
...Aldrich managed to say that of the $80,000,000 loaned by Chase to Cuba nearly $20,000,000 had been repaid and interest was being paid on the rest. Every bit of $80,000,000 had been paid to contractors (for construction of the new Cuban Capitol and of a highway the length of the island) on work certificates approved by the Secretary of Public Works. Not a cent had been paid to ex-President Machado or other officials. Later Chase Vice President Shepard Morgan admitted that General Enoch Crowder, then U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, had given...
...RETURN of RAFFLES - Barry Perowne-Day ($2). Raffles and Bunny, resurrected, repaired and rejuvenated, share three adventures. Plentifully supplied with Sullivan cigarets, they assist the Law, gather a bit of "nobody's money" on the side...
...Sharp, who is a Harvard graduate, and a young retired member of the New York Stock Exchange, now a resident of Bermuda, has a good bit more to offer us than the average writer of murder stories. He unravels his sinister tale in fine literary style and writes vividly of a background he knows very well...
...football came to the defense of both men and was particularly lenient with Dr. O'Brien. The rules on blocked kicks are not clear in the records, says the head man, and thus O'Brien may be excused a lapse of memory. We'd like to add our little bit of comment to the flood that has already appeared even thought it is a bit late. The trouble seems to lie in the rules committee and not with the officials, and there the blame should rest and the responsibility assumed. For our part, 'we extend our sincere sympathy...