Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty. Such an organization would not be complicated by ideals. Its is not difficult to get a Marine to fight, whether it be for one nation, or for the peace of the world. With a dangerously efficient world police in mind, the desire of one nation to annex a bit of another's territory would be lulled into inactivity. Unfortunately such a method of enforcement would work only with almost complete disarmament the world over, when it would be scarcely more necessary than a police squad in Paradise. The first necessity it to attain our international Paradise, after which...
...church music in particular. Moreover the book has a truly musical structure in that space is devoted more to the printing of the compositions themselves than to the discussion of them. The reader may not find the music very tuneful; he may be piqued not to find a favorite bit of Lassus included in the collection of reproductions. But considering that the number of Lassus's compositions has been estimated at 1250 and upwards, possible oversights of this kind can be accounted for. Beyond the covers of the book Dr. Davison provides Harvard readers with many interpretations of the motets...
...rolling hills, and a certain Louis Seize drawing room where a joyful terrier momentarily basks before a crackling hickory fire, he wonders dimly how he will endure humdrum Cambridge till June. At this point in his cogitation he wanders absently to the punch bowl, and helps himself to a bit more, with a generous spike...
...they did not seem enough to blast loose the rock of discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable...
FAREWELL Miss JULIE LOGAN-J. M. Barrie-Scribner ($1). Not many authors and fewer poets know when to retire. Notable exception is Alfred Edward Housman who, at the age of 63, published his Last Poems and has stuck by his announcement. Sir James Matthew Barrie has certainly done his bit for the world of letters; readers, without actually thinking him dead, may well have thought him finished. But now, after nearly 30 years (in which he has written 14 plays but no stories) comes a little Scottish fairy tale as neat as a pin, bright as a button, sentimental...