Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time Mr. Verity asked his stockholders to approve a timely bit of financial thrift in the form of a $45,000,000 preferred stock issue. Part of the money will be used for expansion, including a rolling mill in Australia, the rest for retirement of outstanding bonds and old preferred stock. The refunding will probably save the company something in money costs and leave it in that rare position, a steel company virtually free of funded debt...
...shot of Whalen attired in a donkey's head and Hudson crowned with an admiral's hat riding home in a milk wagon early in the morning. Squeezed in behind them is an enthusiastic three piece orchestra and a crooner. This will either strike you as the funniest bit of farce in recent months or the stupidest. At any rate, it is extraordinary...
Seven rambunctious Canadian mothers with a total of 65 children have been champing at the bit for four months demanding a verdict in the $500,000 Toronto Stork Derby (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), which concluded last Halloween. Last week they heard with relief that positively no claims filed after April 8 will be valid. That hearty, Rabelaisian character Mrs. Martin Kenny, mother of eleven, was keeping the Canadian press in convulsions by telling reporters: "I know positively that I am going to have the most children at one time. ... I never felt like this before with...
...film is well photographed, well acted, and the adaptation of Charles Francis Coe's story, while it retains little of the original, is certainly a superior bit of craftsmanship. But with all this it misses fire somewhere along the way; and it is difficult for the reviewer to tell just where...
...Pennies From Haven," on the other hand, is about as thoroughly insipid a bit of sentimentality as we have encountered in a long time. Based on an ancient theory that an actor already firmly established as a feminine drawing card, will be twice as appealing in company with a small child, Columbia saddles Mr. Crosby with a weepy, tearstained child named Edith Fellows...