Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover signed a bill directing the War Department to purchase its supplies within the U. S. even when they cost a bit more than abroad. The Department has lately been charged with using Russian matches...
...race. Boiling mad, Mr. Smith flashed back: "You are trying to put me in a false light with my friends in Massachusetts. . . . I welcome their support. . . . I battled hard for the principles they stand for and I am ready to do so again. . . . Your telegram seems to me a bit tricky. . . ." Retorted Boston's Mayor: "In the words of the poet, 'Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!'" When a complete slate of Smith delegates, headed by Governor Ely and Senator Walsh, was put into the field, it became plain...
...Prince of Wales, fortnight ago, expressed his "debt" to 300 London editors, said that he is always glad to oblige the Press by furnishing an extra bit of "copy." Last week H. R. H. could have made "copy" that would have thundered round the world merely by mentioning Carnarvon's students. No fool, he kept his mouth shut. Most of his father's subjects never even heard that a Jack had been shredded...
...been done and is being done to relieve them . . . But what perhaps is the most important phase of his writing will be his statement of the attitude of Russia today toward the rest of the world, particularly toward the United States, Britain and Japan. There will be quite a bit about Japan...
...least once, that he has 47 scars. One of them, running along his right cheek, gives his dark and friendly face a dangerous look which he enhances by wearing black sweaters and scowling. He received his first injury in Australia, where he was born in 1888. A snake bit his finger and his brother chopped it off. In most professional sports there is some character whose endurance or perverse courage has earned him the banal distinction of being called an "iron man." NcNamara has been the iron man of bicycle riders for 15 years. Grown somewhat rusty with...