Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't help when she was batted about in Pacific Coast stock. Star in Pirandello and Shaw plays at Wisconsin, Kathleen toured the U. S. as the heroine in The Drunkard, playing in hotels as well as theaters. She trimmed her figure for pictures, only to get a "bit" no one noticed. She had the lead in Three Men on a Horse when the leading lady was on vacation. After that period of glory, she went on tour with Boy Meets Girl, in a part you could find only with a microscope...
Eusebius Pamphili--not a bit...
...after a bit of research it sems that if a space one foot high, 18 inches wide and six feet high, 18 inches wide and six feet six inches long (allowing room for a hat) were alloted to each student, the entire 3700 students in Harvard College would fit into the room, with space left for a lecturer as well as his notes, and, providing the two Greek statues were removed, for three section men. The volume of space required is 60 by 40 by 15 feet...
Perhaps the Vagabond was suffering from a slight attack of claustrophobia. Certainly the surroundings were enough to make most people who cared for the great open spaces, mountains, prairies, or the sea, go a bit whacky. Once, when a little tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to visit the county jail of his home town in Connecticut. It was a dark redbrick building, ivy-clad, and punctuated with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded...
...late John ("Three-Ring") Ringling, was inspecting the circus' Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters. Imprudently disregarding warning signs, he leaned against the bars of Gargantua's cage to rest. Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention...