Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when the rest of the cast is excitedly chasing a man in a gray sheet. In fact this play has a little bit of everything. There is even a trick Ford, which when driven on the stage, proceeds to fall apart piece by piece as the comic driver attempts to keep it running...
...Another incorrect thing about college boys is that they are afraid of being different; they would not have an opinion different from every one else if they were paid for it. I'm not a bit that way; I have plenty of opinions, but they get me into trouble all the time--most people like to hear you say what you like for a while, but they soon tire of it. But come, I am just reeking with platitudes; that seems to be a failure with me when it comes to interviews. I must be afraid of the press because...
...atmosphere of wistfulness and unreality. These qualities she puts to good advantage in Alice, the tale of a woman plagued by her children's bungling and over-zealous attentions. The Old Lady, which relates the adoption of a rowdy War hero by a pitiful charwoman, is cut a bit too rough to suit Actress Taylor's style. But many a Taylor and Barrie fan who goes to see this bill will come away well satisfied...
...city to become a banker's lawyer, but Fate opposes. Millionaire Rafael Bassan, who owns racing-stables and tries to own his beautiful bad wife Fedora, has just been robbed of a fortune in stocks & bonds. Ambitious Rustic Trux calls attention to himself by prophesying, from a bit of the man's handwriting, who the thief would turn out to be. Though his clairvoyant accusation carries no legal weight, subsequent tests confirm his prophetic powers. He is taken up as a curiosity by Millionaire Bassan, falls in love with vampirish Fedora, prophesies her husband's death. Bassan dies, not according...
...form slumber by the fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...