Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staggers in, ghastly pale, and the curtain falls. The audience is left to wonder which of thirteen possible suspects, each with some betrayal of guilt, is the murderer. Derby Brown, in the part of the host, first a beaming Mr. Pickwick and then a leering Mephistopheles, does a rare bit of acting which alone makes the play worth seeing...
Your editorial of February 6, "On the Tribune" seems to embody those very qualities which you say the people of the West criticize, and in any case is very imprudent and uncalled for. The Tribune's editorial was a bit extreme, but did not call for an outburst of criticism, directed against the Mid-West, more violent than weighty. It seems to me that you should not insult that element of the student body which gives Harvard its national fame. If Harvard were merely a local Massachusetts institution, there would be no one to carry its policies and traditions...
...Mencken's arguments are a bit high-strange; they savor of viciousness. But it is evident that he has struck a blow in the right place, though he may have struck too hard. From a purely intellectual point of view, the schools need revision. And from the standpoint of financial expediency, they are more than wasteful. For this hard-spent money, the citizens are given, as Mr. Mencken says, the sight of a myrind palatial buildings, "out of each vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy... an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which...
...resourceful pedagog gets about a good bit. That thought might have occurred, 14 years ago, to a tall, youngish psychology professor whose grey eyes looked out from droopy eyelids at the leisurely charm of the University of North Carolina. Harry Woodburn Chase had been born in 1883 into a family in Groveland, Mass, which was said to have moved only five miles in 300 years. At Dartmouth he had taken his A.B.; at Clark University in Worcester (Mass.) his doctorate. Married to a Midwesterner, he went to North Carolina's Chapel Hill...
Brightest bit of testimony came from Hearst's star witness, the egg-throwing Mrs. Ward. Under cross-examination by Lawyer John William Guider she admitted referring to Griffith as "lacto bacillus acidopholus-because he would sour the milk of human kindness"; and as a "dirty rotten turtle egg" because someone had told her that was the Chinese expression of supreme contempt...