Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability of either actors or author; Miss Rachel Crothers does not show her hand until the second act. There have been innumerable drunk scenes paraded before the long-suffering theatre-goer, but their authors have rarely succeeded in the measure with which Miss Crothers does in this particular bit. Geoffrey Wardwell and Jay Fassett contribute remarkable performances as their share in this scene, and the author supplied them with excellent material, studded with laugh producing lines...
...Irishmen's expense TIME overlooks the fact that there were no potatoes in Ireland-or anywhere else in Europe-a thousand years ago. Will TIME forgive a slightly nauseated Irishman (Mick, Harp, Turkey, Flannel-mouth, if TIME prefers) if a mild passion for truth makes him a bit insensible to fun-loving TIME'S preference for what it deems to be humor...
...sister Mrs. Worthington Pfeiffer. Along came a policeman and handed Miss Bowen a summons. Miss Bowen tore up the summons, threw the pieces in the policeman's face, then slapped it. Over the head of a second policeman she broke a picture frame. The constable she bit. Her fine...
...tubs paddled for the plane, snatched at boxes of medical supplies which the two doctors proceeded to unload. "Ah, food!" cried a snatcher. Seizing some boxes of absorbent gauze he ripped one open, tried to eat the white stringy stuff, raged to find it not food. Other Chinese snatched, bit, fell to reviling the two doctors, one a Chinese. Said Colonel Lindbergh afterward: "It was one of the most heartrending, yet terrifying scenes I ever saw." Lest the plane be mobbed, swamped, destroyed, its motor roared. Dodging neatly between sampans, the Colonel put on speed. "As our ship took...
...underplays rich lines (a practice known theatrically as "throwing 'em away"), discloses that he has received offers of help but prefers to let his firm go bankrupt, announces that he is going away because his life, his wife, his children and all young people "bore him a bit." "No, I'm mistaken," he corrects himself. "Infinitely...