Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above helping his Home along with a bit of publicity, Father Flanagan broadcasts his boys' band, gets celebrities to visit the institution, among them: Tom Mix,* Admiral Byrd, Paul Whiteman, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Will Rogers. With a fanfare from the local Press, Father Flanagan got up from his sick bed fortnight ago and set out for Seattle to plead with Governor Roland Hartley for Herbert Niccolls' custody. Said Father Flanagan: "I am willing to back my reputation of years of work that I can aid this boy to become a useful citizen. . . . No boy of twelve...
Replied the patient's sister: "That's all right. I don't think that's a bit excessive under the circumstances. I'm sure that a plumber would have charged us more...
...from the body that contained it, he might be able to tell whether that cell would become a still-born child or one that would live to ripe age. The biologist cannot do that, but he is learning more & more about the nature of cells, and with each new bit of cell knowledge comes new knowledge of the nature of human beings, who are just cells multiplied and grown up. Last spring Dr. Francis Ferdinand Lucas, microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, perfected an ultraviolet ray microscope capable of showing living cells in action. He set it to work photographing brain...
...President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup. One vice president of the exposition is 78-year-old Major-General Hugh Lenox Scott, who in his youth did his bit toward helping the Vanishing American vanish. Other patrons include: Ambassador Dawes, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair). Mrs. Herbert Hoover lent the show two Indian paintings from her own collection. Artist John Sloan and Ethnologist Oliver ("Laughing Boy") La Farge helped prepare...
...clue failed to work. They got tangled in the underbrush. They fell down the mountainous hillsides. It was very hot. ''Millions of beastly little insects" bit them, and their bites "stung and irritated like the deuce." Soon their time was up; baffled but undaunted they went back to England. "One of these days," says Capt. Campbell, in spite of this setback and in spite of the known failure of other Cocos Island treasure-seekers, he will try again...