Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root, Seth Low, Brander Matthews, Woodrow Wilson, Henry James, John Burroughs, Mme Marie Curie. Mark Twain signed a second time as S. L. Clemens. After the present exhibition, this bit of historic needlework will go back into the service of Mrs. Carnegie, who still uses it on occasion...
...court to testify that some nights Mrs. Nieman "would drink half a bottle (of gin), some nights a full bottle. . . ." No one could guess why Mrs. Nieman wanted Harvard to have her money, reputedly $5,000,000, and even Harvard's President James Bryant Conant shied off a bit, firm in the conviction that Harvard wanted no journalism school...
...does not want young men as stars, he went on to say. For he pointed out, "The star is a little bit of tinsel on top of the Christmas tree...
Concerning Charles Wakefield Cadman's Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, TIME, Dec. 13, I have a bit of additional information...
...asinine than a statement issued recently by School Committeeman Joseph Lee, Jr., who would strip Harvard of its leadership in American education because, he says, it no longer fits young men for the job of life. For one who is so tied up with education, his attitude is a bit unseemly...