Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibly a bit on the tough (or naive) side, was strolling along Quincy Street. He seemed lost. Perceiving a man coming out of a brick house nearby, he shouted, "Say, buddy, d'ya know where this guy Gummere lives...
...Wardman Park Hotel in one of the King Ranch's stripped hunting Fords, has spent his free time with his family, playing golf (in the low 70s), and avoiding newspapermen. He is a conscientious worker for himself and other farmers, who listens patiently to Congressional oratory, does his bit against oleomargarine and other bug bears of the range, never misses a meeting of his sole committee, Agriculture. Finally, he is a good John Nance Garner Democrat...
Said Fellow Conductor Sir Hamilton Harty: "He is understood to be very absent-minded." Said Fellow Conductor Sir Adrian Boult: "We musicians are all a bit absent-minded." Said BBC Television Orchestra Player Cyril Clark: "... A very absent-minded and dreamy individual." Said his wife, Sidonie Goossens, sister of Cincinnati Conductor Eugene Goossens: "He is absent-minded." Impressed by the weight of evidence, Defendant Greenbaum added his own tuppennyworth: "My friends tell me I am very absent-minded...
...individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
After a period in which it refused permission to the student Union to use a lecture room for its proposed forum of the candidates for Governor of Massachusetts except under stringent conditions, the University last night removed all restrictions bit the one limiting admission to students only by ticket...