Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petulant beauty of the Princess Kuhachin, and the trusting, almost child-like simplicity of the great Kublai Khan. Basil Rathbone, as the scheming minister of state, is as sly and villainous as in past pictures. Sigrid Gurie, Sam Goldwyn's famed Norwegian discovery from Brooklyn, is at times a bit annoying with her studied cuteness, while George Barbier plays his role as the great Khan in a manner more reminiscent of a genial Tammany district leader that the fierce and terrifying warrior of ancient China. Gary Cooper, as Marco Polo, collects coal, fireworks, and "spaghet" to introduce to Venice...
...that night a dog ran over it with its muddy feet. [Here the President began to grin.] When she saw what was done she sat down and didn't cry a bit. All she said was, 'Ain't it queer that he didn't miss nothin?' That was true greatness, but it is only people who have done washing that know...
...Morgan hammered both his former colleagues when he came to the Berry Marble Case. In the Senate Chamber nowadays, Major George Leonard Berry sits very quietly, a bit dejectedly, his thinning hair plastered sidewise over his pate like an oldtime bartender's. Now junior Senator from Tennessee, as well as President of the International Pressmen's Union, he was Coordinator of Industrial Co-operation in the New Deal when, in 1935, he suddenly hove into TVA's picture as a claimant for $1,600,000 for certain marble deposits in lands which TVA had flooded. Arthur Morgan...
...then declared that, from the very first meeting of the TVA board, Chairman Morgan had taken bit in teeth and galloped off in many directions. He had fired at them "a series of unrelated proposals, some of which were details, others which were of far-reaching and startling significance." Examples...
Beneath the Biological laboratories lies Harvard's bit of Hollywood. Here a group of rooms with a curious assortment of movie equipment houses the Harvard Film Service. Founded after the four-year-old University Film Foundation, an organization separate from Harvard, folded, the Service moved into its present location...