Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan restaurant Miss Alice Weigel, eating succotash, bit something hard, found it was a bright new dime. Angry, Miss Weigel called her waiter, showed him the dime she had found in her succotash. "Thank you," said the waiter, smiling as he departed with the dime in his pocket...
...selections were stimulating--full of humor and dash. However, I am of the opinion that the lecture might have been even more refreshing, although not so unified, if at least two or three introductions by different men to the same writer's works has been mixed up a bit. At least it would have been more of a game for the student to locate and tag the lecture...
Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...that. In London King-Emperor George V presided at a special cabinet meeting. Two British cruisers were sent racing to Shanghai from Singapore. Artillery and infantry were ordered up from Hongkong. French troops barricaded their concession against Japan. An Italian destroyer landed 150 marines. Even Portugal did her bit. She owns the little peninsula and famed gambling city of Macao in China. With her boilers wheezing bravely the 36-year-old Portuguese cruiser Adamastor made her way out of Macao. Shanghai bound...
Last December, St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie went into involuntary orthodoxy. The church rents and investments had gone down in the Depression, leaving no more money for pageantry. This, by a curious bit of ecclesiastical weaseling. healed the breach last week between Bishop Manning and Dr. Guthrie...