Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bit of advice to the audidience, the Pennsylvania executive said. "Cultivate a sense of humor the kind that will let you laugh at yourself. If's your philosophy of life...
Said Professor Schaper's good friend, famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "... A monument to freedom of inquiry." In Oklahoma, William Schaper, now white-haired, bit his lip to hold back the tears, faltered: "It is so sudden I hardly know what to say. I never have borne a grudge against any man involved in my dismissal. Of course I am profoundly grateful...
...Navy Blue and Gold"; Tom Brown is rather funny as he periodically enjoys "the happiest day of his life"; and there is only one spectacular run in the final football game--although Navy wins, of course. "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" is not a tearjerker; Mickey Rooney does a good bit of acting as the cocky "Click" Donovan; and Judy Garland is very funny as a would-be glamorous actress...
...script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture proceeds through the high & hackneyed jinks of a machine-made plot. Ethel Merman sings with her usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer at a house party, and skates a little bit. Ameche and Romero spark like worn-out cigaret lighters. A swing quintet, headed by Raymond Scott, tears into something called the War Dance of the Wooden Indians. And Sonja, hovering on the outer edge, looks on with bland, pudgy good nature, putting in a word here & there in excellent parrot...
...reading period leisure, its examination period frenzy, and the publication of the annual reports of the various officers and departments of the University. It is the contents of the latter category, the annual reports, which are causing comment these days, although there may be some persons a bit concerned about bluebooks, as yet. During the past week, however, both President Conant and Dean Hudunt, of the Graduate School of Design, saw fit to recapitulate their activities of the past year. They both had a lot to say on several subjects, but it is most interesting to note that...