Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That barrage of tongue-twisters may be duck soup for Chancellor Chamberlain and "to the more responsible and more informed section of opinion in the United States," but are they not a bit heavy for the mere Middle West...
Spicing his speech with a bit of secret history, Chancellor von Schleicher told a story on himself & Cabinet which made the Fatherland chuckle. Two of his ministers, he said, recently quarreled. Minister of Agriculture Baron Friedrich Edler von Braun insisted on retention of Germany's high agricultural tariffs, while Minister of Economics (Industry) Professor Dr. Hermann Warmbold demanded agricultural free trade...
...services, Rabbi Wolf brought suit against Max, Joe, Sam, Ben, Mrs. Tillie and Mrs. Ethel Bormaster. He sought judgment for 150 prayers at $5 each, plus court costs. It is customary for Jewish families to give the synagog something for Kaddish prayers. But most rabbis thought $5 a bit high even for a private prayer, pointing out that Kaddish need not keep a rabbi from his other duties...
Neighborly and helpful if a bit blatant seemed the San Francisco Public Health Office when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine met there last summer. Tippling Shriners were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak-nosed Director of Public Health at whose request a survey of poison cases was later made which resulted in the successful use last fortnight of methylene blue, a dye common in the textile industry, as antidote for cyanide of potassium (TIME...
...scheme, Author Erskine has of course ousted Tristan from the hero's place, made minor Palamede the heroic figure. Palamede was a Saracen who fell in love with the ideas of chivalry as related to him by one of his father's Christian slaves. The bit about adoring women particularly appealed to Palamede. He deviled his father for permission to travel among the Franks, find an object of adoration. His philosophical father intimated his errand was foolish but let him go. If Palamede had not been so romantically inclined he would have been quickly disillusioned; he soon found...