Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House and the Executive Offices received wooden ashtrays, penholders, cigaretes, jewel cases, paper cutters, etc. All were made from the 100-year-old timber taken from the White House roof when it was renewed during the Coolidge era. With each gift went a card engraved with a bit of free verse. Though unsigned, every recipient knew that Mrs. Hoover had written...
...decent interval has interposed between you and your schooldays, you probably think of Daniel Webster as a forbidding old party who invented U. S. oratory and was somehow not elected President. Perhaps you may have the idea he wrote a dictionary.**With the exception of the bit about the dictionary, your memory is accurate if not exhaustive. No debunker but a solid and serious historian, Fuess has filled two fat volumes with facts about his hero, facts which somehow, however, do not add up into a speaking likeness. Some facts you may have forgotten: that Daniel Webster took drugs...
...should prove sustained. There will be front-page articles for a week. Bishop Manning will refuse to prosecute. Clarence Darrow, trial lawyer and atheist par excellence will delight in protesting against charges of inducing to riot. Lindsey, a bit chastened, will contend that his indignation at being accused by the Bishop of writing "the most filthy, insidious and cleverly-written piece of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness, promiscuity, adultery and unrestrained sexual gratification" carried him away. The 3500 will continue behaving as well-groomed and decent citizens. The limelight will bestow its honors on everyone connected with...
...Sussex, N. J., Farmer Patrick Devine & son were in his wagon; his horse in front; his cow behind; his dog gamboling here & there. Up leaped the dog, bit the horse's nose. Terrified, horse and cow upset the wagon. Farmer Devine threw his son out, jumped, caught his foot in a chain, was killed under the wheels...
...motto." His questions clearly indicated that Inventor Edison has remained aware of the fundamental problems of flight, has not filled his head with every detail of development. Most serious to him is the danger of landing in fog. Said he : "Radio, at the present time, is a bit too delicate for fog work. It is subject to fluctuations and it may go out of condition. ... I personally prefer to work up something much more simple." The "something simple," it transpired, might be a rocket on which Mr. Edison was already experimenting. He has devised a day-or-night rocket...