Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infirmity was reviewed in Tevere, with this conclusion: "One can understand why Roosevelt pushes his country toward war. He is a man of catastrophe, he is a man of ill luck, and he wants to bring ill luck to America." To U. S. Ambassador William Phillips this seemed a bit too much. He protested to Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Result: continued front-page anti-U. S. editorials in almost every Italian newspaper...
...Union Internationale de Radiodiffusion, which assigns European broadcasting frequencies, and broadcasts loudly and persistently on Erin's assigned frequency. Officially assigned on the same frequency are Palermo and Catania, Italy. With all three going at once in opposition, all England usually hears of Radio-Eireann is an occasional bit of brogue breaking through a great and garlicky palaver. Last week Radio-Eireann had still another plaint. For the infrequent times Athlone can get its signals across, some British newspapers have been failing to list its programs...
...Picasso's eyes, enormous in relation to his head, dominate his face, which despite a largely indoor life has taken on a finely crinkled, leathery quality often found in Spaniards. Never a dandy, he now dresses adequately but with indifference, is only a bit touchy about being short (5 ft. 3 in.). A plausible theory for the usual dirt and disorder of his rooms is that it is largely reaction from the neatness enforced by his bourgeois wife...
...bored: "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of the birds? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? Whereas with painting, people must understand. If only they would realize that an artist ... is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things...
...what's this? Water getting lighter, lighter; sunshine streaming through. A whole school of happy, normal-looking fish frolic past, inviting, luring, beckoning with their tails. A svelt mermaid wriggles by. Vag thaws a bit. Lighter and lighter. Then the upward motion stops, and the water drains off the window for the first time in a month. Heavy wrenches clatter against the door bolts. It loosens. A whisper of new air comes in. A whisper, then a hiss, a roar...