Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West waved Spicypiece to the winning stall, did not bother to rank the rest. Said he afterward: "She came as close to perfection as one could ask." For Spicypiece's owner. Broker Stanley J. Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y., her win meant a double distinction. His Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, also a wire-haired terrier but no kin to Spicypiece, took best in show at Westminster in 1934. For young Peter Garvan there was solid consolation...
...magical outside world. But when she took him to a secluded pool and jumped in trustingly with nothing on, he decided that innocence disarms and went to say goodby. Lucy did not see why she could not go with him, swam out to the boat after them, scratched and bit while they trussed her up, took her ashore...
Opera being too artificial for the movies with their show of realism, there has been a bit of a problem over working into the movies the great entertainment value of song. The most satisfactory solution seems to be to present a show in a show, whereby songs can be sung in great profusion. That is the line followed in "On the Avenue", whereby we hear the already popular strains of "Let's Go Slumming", "Last Year's Love", "He Ain't Got Rhythm", "Police Gazette Girl", and "I Got My Love to Keep Me Warm". Most of these are sung...
...amiable, phlegmatic, intuitively shrewd young Roman Catholic recently and rapidly wooed a pretty, alert, decisive young Protestant who is every bit as horsy as His Grace-and in all England there is no horsier aristocrat or plebeian than Norfolk-the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 20, daughter of the 3rd Baron...
...Hoxsey memorandum on this subject which the Senator so admired. Mr. Whitney pointed out that this memorandum, written four years before he was elected Exchange president, had been a "confidential report" to the Committee on Stock List. Senator Wheeler was unappeased. Broker Whitney: "I really did quite a bit of work at the Exchange." Senator Wheeler: ''I must confess I am surprised...