Word: bitting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would have been "gossip" and un-British actually to name the Nawab, but last week Reynolds' Illustrated News of London printed: "Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was a bit bewildered when he was entertained at tea recently by a wealthy Nawab. To show in what honor he held his visitor, the Nawab had a fire made of rupee notes to boil the water...
Mischa Auer, of apeman fame in "My Man Godfrey" gives a wonderful bit of entertainment as a drunken Austrian count...
...Most of the students are reasonable because they know that the ushers are their equals and not the type hired by Keith's Memorial. Of course, when some of the fellows have five or six ales under their belts they're a bit hard to handle. If a fellow is forced to leave more than three times, no more tickets will be sold to him." The chief trouble with old ladies is their inability to see in the dark. I remember one lady who, temporarily blinded, stretched out her arms and waving them hestitantly fingered the nose and eyes...
...Petrograd, and the last counter-revolutionary paper to be suppressed. She fell in love with a highly proper young English diplomat, kept offending him because she was. not so proper as he was. History was in the making all around her, but she hardly noticed it, was not a bit impressed. "Personally, I shall never feel quite bamboozled by this aura of historical magnificence, nor whisper to my grandchildren about the great and wonderful things I have witnessed." Partly because she got sick of anti-Bolshevik propaganda, Lola was on the verge of being converted to Bolshevism when...
...Pennies From Heaven," 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, tear-stained child named Edith Fellows...