Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farewell to Arms. Laurence Stallings was a co-author of What Price Glory and of Rainbow. Best that can be said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would...
...Government, was introduced in Parliament by Mr. Bennett, passed swiftly over bitter but impotent Liberal objections, and next morning was law of the land-as U. S. exporters found out to their cost. Hokum. In the well tailored breast pocket of dignified Conservative Bennett is one bulging bit of hokum. Time and again he has accused his Liberal predecessor, ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, of "pusillanimously permitting Washington to write our tariff act!" Matter of fact, under Mr. King, the Canadian tariff was an automatically sliding scale of "countervailing duties"-that is, if the U. S. duty...
...latest fantasy about a boy who shirked his studies, teased his pets. Clock, chairs, teapot came to life. Cat, squirrel, frog and bat took on human ways. It was all delightfully fragile and the more music-wise waxed enthusiastic over the smart orchestration which suggested perfectly so detailed a bit as the Boy stupidly mulling over his mathematics. Soprano Queena Mario, all agreed, made an irresistibly piquant Boy. But the children liked her better when she came out as Gretel, with great holes in her stockings, with pigtails stiff as twigs...
...House loses in water view it gains in privacy and quiet. And the tower itself! What happy stroke of artistry decreed its color scheme? See it for the first time on a summer's day of blithe blue air, with white clouds flying, and you will think it a bit of sky caught by the wings and pinioned up aloft there white of cloud, blue of heaven, and gold of the gun. Hellenic, too; for these are the colors which everywhere in Greece fill the eye and flood the mind...
...first meetings of courses are, as a rule, singularly unproductive and even a bit tiresome. There is, be sure, a certain feeling of relief in knowing that nothing of importance will be said, but in the average course such first impressions are deceptive and temporary. Hence Professor Cole threw the proverbial "pineapple" among the ranks of students in Economics 9a by announcing certain progressive measures which he intends to introduce into the course...