Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of the boys is all old stuff, for the Army does not go in very heavily for changes. One new tid-bit, however, is the announcement that "The Cadets will march in a special formation arranged for the visit to Boston." Take it, or leave it, for what it's worth...
...infinitely more childish was the performance of these grown men, for whom the combination of a war uniforn and an officer's badge proved so intoxicating. Now that the annual game of Cops and Robbers is over and the cops have won, the undergraduate body would like a bit of peace and quiet...
...vocal eccentricities of Ethel Merman and the antics of the Ritz Brothers, now a bit frayed about the edges, are the chief assets of "Straight, Place and Show," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. On the debit side are a great deal of fake photography, a lack of any dialogue and the galling fact that Miss Merman loses her man to Phyllis Brooks. The race track farce, similar in many ways to the Marx Brothers' "Day at the Races," reaches hilarious heights only in three or four sequences in which the Messrs. Ritz hold the screen alone...
...biggest and best team the Stadium has seen," grunted Skip Stahley. "A bigger line than any we had or played against in my four years at Pittsburgh," grumped Johnny Wood. Even the new baseball coach now working for Harlow, Floyd Stahl, growled his bit, "Cornell looks like Minnesota...
Thus did the semifinalists in the U. S. Singles tennis championships (men's & women's) spend their time last week while an unprecedented rainy spell held up the semi-finals at Forest Hills for six days. As jittery contestants champed at the bit, U. S. tennis fans mused over nine days of the dullest top-flight tennis since women played in ankle-length flannel skirts and panama hats...