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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather general idea. Religion, we're told, belongs in the archives, but not on the front page; it's all right for the shelf, but not for the table. . . . "I'm not ready to admit that religion, though it may have moved down a bit, has moved out. Far from it. Meanwhile, you might take a look at the world on your own account. Get the file of last week's newspapers and thumb your way through them as I have done. . . ." Thus introduced, Stanley High's first broadcast went along to deal chiefly with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: High on the Air | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...ruled total $18,000 a year, decided to end his incognito. To newsmen he snorted: "The very idea! Cooking my own meals! Why, I could not fry an egg! Not even the much abused American tabloid has ever served me in such fashion. I would call this going a bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...chance that the role is hers, for she knows by heart the thoughts, words and deeds of the regally gilded queens of Broadway. . . . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has assembled its greatest cast since Grand Hotel*. . . ." This cast: Robert Montgomery; Zasu Pitts, independent comic who does bit work in so many cinemas she seldom learns their plots, cannot remember their titles; James Gleason, who in this one supplies the pathos, dies; Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, who appears in one scene for five minutes; Billie Dove, whose once shapely figure has assumed dimensions hardly commensurate with her rôle?that of Miss Davies' friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...guess Groucho Marx wouldn't like it so much if he thought, as I did at first, that you meant he personally was "depraved" (TIME, Aug. 15). Friends tell me that he is a very nice gentleman, good to his wife and not a bit a loose character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Little Bit of Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Mick from Down Town | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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