Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes down to economics, to the necessarily large import trade in eligible males, drunk or sober. Having suffered the drain of this trade for many years, having been fed off the fat of the filled land, having danced to expensive orchestras night after night, Harvard is still a bit prone to echo ungratefully Adams' sentiments; to decide, in the gray awakening after a champagne coming-out, to get his next date at Radcliffe...
Just before he sailed back to Britain, still closely guarded, Patrick said in a message to Irishmen: "Everyone who knows Irishmen likes them. They like a joke and are always ready for a bit of fun. Your attachment to the Throne is proverbial and I am delighted to have this opportunity of seeing it myself on your own soil...
...them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles, marshes of all the earth. Bit by bit the hauls of famed ornithologists and obscure amateurs found their way to Tring, gave it what many experts regard as the best all-round collection in the world.* Mammals, reptiles, insects have come too. From Tring issues sporadically the learned Novitates Zoologicae, and occasionally a story...
...very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom of his sub-conscious imagination, a ghost, or a real person. We are assured that the whole thing is probably but a lapse into madness, but the last bit of evidence about the finding of the basket she had carried makes us wonder. It is this very uncertainty that makes the story uncanny and also successful...
...morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only do what they are told, but do a good bit of real acting besides...