Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when he sings, Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that he is superstitious about his ring with the Ceylon ruby but Soprano Lucrezia Bori is not one bit ashamed of the little gold key she wears pinned to her garter. She calls it her "key to happiness...
Mental Healers narrates the life-history, describes the practices of three such doctor-priests?the discoverers of Mesmerism, Christian Science, Psychoanalysis. Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1814) started the snowball rolling with a bit of magnetized iron. In 1774 Maximilian Hell, astronomer of the Society of Jesus, fashioned a magnet which, on application, cured a lady's stomach trouble. Mesmer tried similar tricks with Hell magnets himself; to his amazement they worked. An enormous practice sprang up at Mesmer's Vienna home. Soon, however, he discovered that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them...
...England, according to reports, there is little excitement--less, it seems, than in the United States. Difference in the Eastern and Western interpretations of catastrophe makes what we might call war a bit of large-scale policing to the Orientals. It is intelligent to discuss the crisis in terms of proper proportion. It is unintelligent to become worked up over nothing more substantial than an impressively warlike front page, bearing antique military photographs and often pitifully weak news articles; all these appear under headlines that clearly stamp the issue at its true value...
...Vagabond will indulge this morning in a bit of introspection which will soon dissolve, like a liberal club's debates, into airy persiflage. There are times in the lives of all men when there comes an irrestible urge for action, when they must get them hence. And there are also times when the sedentary life, with pipe, Tom Collinses, an arm chair and all the other appurtenances of leisure seem the only thing, indeed when they are the only thing. On the threshold of such an epoch the Vagabond has arrived, Dunhill in hand. He is sick of wastin' leather...
...First deal: sent with a dime to buy a quart of milk in a glass pitcher, he received a silver 3C-piece in change. Returning he tripped on the curb, fell, bit his tongue, broke the pitcher, spilt the milk, and swallowed the 3c-piece...