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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loves me." The indecisive groom forsakes his new wife for his old girl, goes to Mexico with one of his friends (Fred Keating, who used to make birdcages disappear and eat needles while conversing glibly) to get a quick divorce. But this time Actress Bankhead changes her mind, a bit of luck for Magician Keating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 13, 1933 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Having listened all week to lectures on Money and Banking by Professor J. H. Williams (himself one of the leading Thespians of the Economics Department) it was a bit of a surprise to see some two hundred cash customers waiting for seats in the Metropolitan lobby. Let us grant the truth of the lyric that "without a song a man's no good nohow" and say that those people were waiting to hear a song, "42nd Street." They had heard it, perhaps, as the Playgoer did, over the radio the night before. Even in the stage show, the best sequence...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Harvard came back six minutes later to tie up the count again at 2-2. The second line contributed its bit to the evening's scoring when Pell skated down the ice with Wolcott at center, overskated the goal, and passed out to his mate in scoring position. A backhand shot finished off the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fast-Skating Crimson Puckmen Down Eli in Overtime Tilt, 4-3 | 3/9/1933 | See Source »

...think, however that you misrepresented old Peter slightly. According to you he was somewhat of a ladies' man and a bit primitive, what's more. He was killed in an explosion on the Kettle Valley railway, as you mention. The employes who have been running that line for many years knew him well. When one mentions him to any of them a gleam of admiration will appear. "Ah, there was a gentleman and an aristocrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1933 | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...frightened but if I had not had perfect confidence in my car I could not have completed the attempt. . . . Throughout the run each way I was bucking about like a pea in a pod. . . . The mist obscured my view and dimmed my windscreen. ... I favored my left hand a bit. the hand wrapped to the elbow with elastic bandages. ... I am not at all happy about it. Frankly, there is no reason why I should be. My car has a potential speed of at least 300 m.p.h. ... I had hoped to approach within at least 15 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Daytona | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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