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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tammen, onetime bartender, personified its humor. To him is credited the inscription over the Post's door, "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place." The Post has said of Denver "Everything that comes out of the ground is just a little bit sweeter and a little bit better than that produced in any other portion of our country, and you can lay to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Denver's Coronet | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...want to put a little bit of salt on his tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Butterfly Cloud | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...guess I'm getting old. . . . Yes?I lack nerve. Flying over the Greenland ice cap this year, ... as I looked down on it, I found myself getting afraid. When I came across there before it didn't bother me a bit." Then Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau rose, clicked his heels, bowed his visitors out, went to sleep while Montreal Teutons waited hopefully to toast him at a midnight supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Again, von Gronau | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...pack of cigarets, a few puffs of which make the smoker idiotic, fall into the hands of the police with moderately comic results. Powell invades Francis' house for a midnight call and more light comedy. The police raid farcically and in the same vein Powell does a bit of broken field running through the massed forces of the law. Powell's gestures seem modeled on those of a stage tumbler. He frequently washes his hands in air, as though drying them on an imaginary handkerchief. He clicks his heels and bows from the waist. All this is apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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