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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Little Racketeer," the current production at the Shubert Theater, is just another musical comedy. It has little to recommend it for anything but a pleasant entertainment save a bit of excellent work by the orchestra...

Author: By G. F. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

...Fiddle is a tuneful concert by Jerome Kern which frames a little love story by Librettist Otto Har-bach. The scene, a bit on the lush side and pleasingly so, is laid in Brussels and Louvain' where Miss Bettina Hall and George S. Metaxa, two musicians, alternately fall in & out of each other's arms until the final curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...been breaking in upon the great American devotional rites like a muddy dog at a church wedding. All the advertisements both fore and aft of the main matter are insidious variations on insidious originals. Regrettably, the editors have let their youthful spirits run away with them a bit in the main portion of the magazine, where they print a sprinkling of jokes and drawings that even a college humorous publication would have the taste to omit. Whether willingly or not, the monarchs of trade are having their false whiskers peeled off and their thrones jerked from under them; and still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BURP | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

...does want to talk a bit about Texas. It is only upon rare occasions that a team from the far flung regions of the west comes here to Cambridge. Harvard today has one of her rare opportunities to play the gracious host to an institution that has travelled three thousand miles to play a fine, hard game. It has also the chance to learn what manner of men come out of the west...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

...board at Eton, which American private-school men so love to deify, was recently "covered with arrangements for a Boy Scout Camp and for subsequent attendance at a jamboree, because a Scout is a brother to every other Scout, no matter of what social class." Harrow has done its bit by offering the "Crompton Elocution Prize for Clear Speaking into a Microphone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWER THAN NEW | 10/22/1931 | See Source »

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