Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed my grandmother today," Governor Brucker smiled cordially, replied: "I'm very glad to make your acquaintance." Withdrawing, Student Redner said he was not surprised at the Governor's remark. For a long time it had been his theory that public men do not pay a bit of attention to what rank-&-file citizenry say to them. Governor Brucker later insisted that he had heard Student Redner perfectly...
...plot involves the loss of the winning ticket in a lottery; and the frantic search through most of Paris for this bit of paper leads to many pleasant ramifications. Especially funny is the burlesque of grand opera, showing that the opera stages of France are burdened with no less clumsy pachyderms masquerading as young lovers, than...
...Unlike the present vintage of satiric magazines, it provided in Gibson and his colleagues a commentary on manners that was not merely destructive. For the Gibson Girl and the Gibson Man, however they may "date" in modern eyes, stood as an ideal to young Americans of the nineties. But bit by bit "Life" had to die because it could not change its temper when chafing-dishes were banished from the sideboards of America for juniper drops and bitters. All that was still vital in "Life" was appropriated five years ago by the "New Yorker," and seasoned with the urbanities...
...Baltimore last fortnight a 30-lb. carp jumped from a stall in the wholesale fish market, bit Mrs. Tillie Levy on the ankle...
...York City a number of prominent Greeks did their bit last week for Hellas, mother of the arts. Under the auspices of the Hellenic Forum and the Near East Foundation, a Greek Artists' & Craftsmen's Exhibition opened...