Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...33rd States to do so. Next day Idaho and New Mexico fell into line. Then, over the weekend, began a race to see which State would be the 36th which would complete ratification. Favorite was Massachusetts, benefited by one hour in time. Georgia and Utah were champing at the bit. At this point a dark horse developed. In Jefferson City, Mo. members of the General Assembly were secretly telephoned to be on hand at 10 o'clock, three hours before the Massachusetts chamber was to sit. In record time, one minute, the Missouri Legislators met and made the 20th...
...Wells' latest novel were a bit greater, the word "Blup" would doubtless join the Sargasso Sea of English Slang, and if Mr. Wells were not quite so competent in his own regular way, "Blup" would no doubt never be heard of. The theme of the novel is based on the same stale social satire which has been poured by the hogs-heads from the dripping quills of surviving English radicals of the nineties and of American cynics of the twenties. The hero is a prig conceived to be representative of the insignificant conservative. The author explains, by the story, that...
...bearable, but enjoyable. This story, taken from Ben Ames Williams' "Jubilo," gives him a chance to display all his talents. There's pathos and there's slapstick comedy, there's sentimentality and there's wisecracking. And Marion Nixon as the sweet and Innocent daughter doesn't hurt it a bit...
...Hilton locked out over the floor crowded with the flower of Boston's womanhood. "Well," he reflected, "as I often say to my wife, I can't blame the boys for cutting up a bit at these debutante parties, there isn't much temptation for them to dance...
...more interesting as the truth-between-the-lines. Says he: 'I will confess that I think of myself as being entirely New England and having an almost proprietary knowledge of it. You know the kind of thing I mean-a struggle with myself not to be a little bit Olympian when other people talk about it." His New Winton may be Kent, Conn, (where he went to school for six years) but he has left Kent School out of his picture. Nor has he recognizably drawn 'one of Kent's saltiest characters-as individual...