Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then testified for Mrs. Jelke instead, were discredited by the Court. The alleged misbehavior of Mrs. Jelke and one Robert White of Manhattan were dismissed as being no more than "indiscreet." But the Court did find that Mrs. Jelke had been cruel to her husband when she cursed him, bit his ear, tore his shirt; that Jelke had been cruel to her when he blackened her eye, abused her in the presence of others. Said the Judge: ". . . For her it was a marriage of convenience and an opportunity to indulge in luxury. . . . The wife liked excitement, social affairs...
...little unorthodox, perhaps, but wedded to chemistry. "Why on earth--?" asked his intimates. "I guess it's my sense of adventure," he replied. It is generally agreed he is a great loss to science. In research, his guesses at explanations and results were uncannily accurate. His students claimed, a bit resentfully, that he had an intuitive flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for chemistry, as some men have a flair for music or verse. He worked here and there in half a dozen scattered fields, but any feeling that he was dilettantish in any is not justified...
...Warner). "We see clearly that overproduction of musical films is coming quickly ... as a result of the fact that 42nd Street has broken box office records: therefore, after Cold Diggers of 1933, we will produce no more musical feature-length pictures . . . until the imitative craze dies down. . . ." This smug bit of ballyhoo, by Major Albert Warner for Gold Diggers of 1933, would have sounded more sincere if Warner Brothers' current cinemusicomedy had been a less obvious copy of their earlier one. The casts-Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks-are similar. The narrative frameworks...
...mask of haughty indifference. Senators, exalted from their role of legislators to that of judges in a court from which there is no appeal, listened hour after hour to the flow of evidence, but could make no speeches. Now & then one of them would scribble a question on a bit of paper, send it up to the dais to be put to a witness. As presiding justice Vice President Garner monotonously ruled evidence in & out of the record. The atmosphere of the trial suggested that of a church on a summer Sunday...
London was encouraged but still a bit suspicious. Said the Daily Telegraph...