Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eyelids Mended. When an eyelid is damaged by injury or disease it can be mended satisfactorily by grafting a bit of skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...
...Hoover. I have heard many prominent Democrats in political speeches pay their respects to the President in exactly the same words which Governor Murray used in his Charlotte speech. I don't know that the speakers tried to convey the impression that they were the authors of this bit of sarcasm thrown at Mr. Hoover, but I can say that every time the expression was used it brought down the house...
...bull's front legs and some for his hind legs, and with this, the fed-up and disgruntled multitude commenced to throw cushions, empty beer bottles, bananas, oranges, etc., some almost nailing Pickett-and with the danger, noise, confusion and fatigue, Pickett released all holds and bit the dust instead of the bull's nose. The bull, fortunately for Pickett, also addled, made one vain pass at him prone on the sanded arena but was diverted from further attempts by the maneuvering cowboys; thus ended the humiliating scene, as regards Pickett's part of it, a grand...
...later, Sovkino sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn she took a Berlin screen test-a bit from Gloria Swanson's role in Indiscretion, which she recited in English. Anna Sten, 22, came to the U. S. accompanied by her German husband (Dr. Eugen Franke) but not by her Russian dog, Drushka ("Little Friend''). Said she (in German): "The night I was leaving...
...part of the U. S. occurred the following incidents: 1) In Brooklyn a bear wandered away from Richard Herrold's pet shop, entered a nearby house and rifled a refrigerator, frightening a Mrs Christine Schubert and her 13-year-old son Emil. 2) In Manhattan a pet fox bit Policeman Henry A Bosel. 3) In Washington, D. C., Congressman Fiorello ( "Little Flower") Henry La Guardia continued a Congressional attack upon the bulls & bears of Wall Street (see p 45) 4) The continued Seabury investigation of Tammany corruption filled the Press with references to cartoons of the Tammany Tiger...