Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greeted with a lily. And always American, he does not escape that particularly American kind of snobism about titles. When he boasts that of the three boxers in Burke's Peerage, three are his personal friends, he is little short of ridiculous. And one is becoming a bit weary of people the Prince of Wales calls by their first names, to say nothing of those who make the discovery that under all their reserve Englishmen are really "fine fellows...
...wheat, corn, cotton, etc. etc.) there will be a chart to show the amount of energy expended each year in production, the number of men employed, working hours, volume produced and flow of goods. By last week about 150 charts were completed and the Technocrats permitted themselves a first bit of publicity...
...ship in the sweltering heat of the tropics get into conversation. One is a young scientist returning to Africa to continue his exploration, the other an Anglican missionary going back to his jungle parish. As often happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along, buries himself in the harioning mud and lives by merely breathing through an air hole, and who dis when you put him in water for any length of time...
...They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover of horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some...
...Salt Lake City, Bert Fairclough, attending a family party, asked his sister-in-law for a kiss. When she refused he bit off her nose...