Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a parcel of sporting characters, including No. i Manhattan Promoter Mike Jacobs (no kin to Joe), gathered in a cabana on Miami Beach and signed paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...
Fesler is pinning his hopes on Charley Lutz and Sam White in the front court, Homer Peabody at center, and Captain Lupe Lupien and Fred Heckel in the back court. Substitute Chet Legg is liable to see quite a bit of action in a reserve role and may even start because of the ten points he tossed in against the Lions in the losing battle the Feslermen waged in New York Wednesday night...
...Only sure, scientific method of determining whether an organ is cancerous is microscopic analysis. With a sharp, hollow steel needle a pathologist draws from a suspected growth a bit of living tissue, which is immediately frozen by a stream of carbon dioxide from a high-pressure tank. Then it is cut into thin sections and mounted on a microscope slide. The whole procedure takes only a few minutes, is usually performed while a patient lies on the operating table. If microscopic examination shows that the cells are malignant, a surgeon can start to operate at once...
...like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening to, and now & again she pokes the nodding reader in the ribs with a shrewd bit of prattle...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...