Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later U. S. prestige recovered a bit when the State Department announced that "the fraud consisted in underweighing bales of merchandise consigned to the importers," ordered Minister Norman Armour to waive Collector Johnson's immunity as a treaty official, turn him over to the Haitian courts for trial...
...Tracy, as the newspaperman arrant, is in his element, perhaps a bit too much so. Apparently, he has talked as loudly in the studio as in the picture, with the result that some of the minor roles, notably that of Kate, are neglected. Exceedingly competent acting on the part of James Gleason, who plays Lefty, Thomas' assistant, and on the part of Una Merkel, who portrays the fickle femininity of the story, is enough to save the rather weak plot and the overemphasis on Mr. Tracy. The photography contains nothing unusual, except for the introduction of a former Pathe News...
...hour before midnight the Akron was being buffeted severely by a thunderstorm. Bos'n's Mate Deal went about his business of taking ballast readings, carrying out ominous orders to shift ballast and fuel forward. At his next bit of testimony the committeemen hitched forward in their chairs...
...flagpole-sitting feats and dance marathons there are still some records hung so high and in such out-of-the-way places that few will care to shoot at them. Fortnight ago English airmen flew over Mt. Everest (TIME, April 10). Not so publicized or so spectacular but every bit as jaunty was Aime Felix Tschiffely's recent (1925-27) 10,000-mile horseback ride from Buenos Aires to Washington...
...Harry's mind hopelessly off his work, Durham went crazy with jealousy. With a conveniently sprained ankle confining Dot to Harry's cabin they were just on the verge of a happy beginning when the forest fire broke. The end came like an old-fashioned melodrama, a bit more circumstantial but not a bit more convincing...