Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Century because he could define the word "mollycoddle''† better than anyone else in Cleveland, has ghostwritten for 175 U. S. celebrities, including Josephus Daniels, Samuel Gompers, Cardinal Gibbons, Jack Dempsey. Bob ("Believe It or Not") Ripley says Frank Menke can answer 4,000,000 questions. One bit of information baseball officials wish Historian Menke had not dug up: there is no proof that Cooperstown, N. Y. was the birthplace of baseball, nor that Abner Doubleday, its accredited founder, ever played the game...
...spite of an eleventh-hour reassurance by Governor Saltonstall that "the bill would not give me the slightest bit of embarrassment" the forces of opposition failed to overcome a three-vote margin which denied the repealer a third hearing in the lower chamber last week...
...respecter of persons, a flu bug bit Franklin Roosevelt last week, while other bugs attacked Secretaries Stephen Early and "Missy" Le Hand. The bedded President certified his plan to board U. S. S. Houston this week and view the Navy's war game restfully under tropical sun (see p. 12). He also managed to get some work done...
...International Paper Co. lured brilliant, voluble Archibald Robertson Graustein out of a Boston law firm, made him president, gave him free rein. Mr. Graustein proceeded to take the bit in his teeth. International was huge when he got it. Archie Graustein made it colossal, chiefly by adding power properties. Before he got through, International Paper & Power Co. was an $800,000,000 empire stretching from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico...
...Mecca, Calif., Caroline Faber sued Paramount Pictures, Inc. for $50,000. Reason: when she accepted a manager's invitation to watch a Paramount company working on Her Jungle Love, a chimpanzee named Jiggs (since dead) embraced her, bit her backside...