Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caldwell in his letter in TIME of April 24 is a bit hysterical and conclusion-jumpish about racial discrimination on a trip of which he admittedly saw only the tail-most...
...applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more I see of you, the more I hear of you, it is obvious that you are getting a bit mixed." The ladies clapped rhythmically. Then a bell rang and told her the time allotted for her speech was over anyway...
...their own national tunes. Nobody else was interested. But there were enough Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to make a crowd. Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special Wagner cycle put on not at the Fair Grounds but at the Metropolitan Opera House, and as the World's Fair entered its third week, even the Met's special cycle was playing to poor houses...
...plead with you to stop this promotion of the open-toed, open-backed shoe for street wear. . . . Today you see millions of women, all over America, slop-slopping along the streets with not only their toes out, but their heels out too. ... I won't be a bit surprised if, some day, they just walk right out on you and shellac their soles and put bells on their toes and say, 'To hell with shoes!!' . . . All this makes me very...
Last week, this bit of history was memorable for Ford was again dangling an order before the trade, an order for only 5.000 tons, only an hour's run for the industry's continuous mills. But such was the state of the steel industry that the offer was demoralizing. Youngstown Sheet & Tube allegedly nibbled first, offering Ford a $2 a ton cut. He held out, won a reduction twice as big, added insult to injury by splitting the bone he was throwing seven different ways, so that no plant got more than a sniff of business...