Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RECENT PRESS STORIES OF THE MARRIAGE OF MRS. MARY HILL DOOLITTLE TO RALPH INGERSOLL HAVE BEEN A BIT OF A TRIAL TO ME, ANOTHER MRS. MARY HILL DOOLITTLE . . . AND NOW YOUR VERSION OF THE STORY [TIME, DEC. 6] ADDS A BIT TO MY DIFFICULTIES BY DESCRIBING MARY HILL DOOLITTLE INGERSOLL AS A CELLIST. I AM THE CELLIST, AND HAVE CONCERTIZED FROM COAST TO COAST UNDER MY FULL NAME, MARY HILL DOOLITTLE. APPARENTLY THE GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US IS THAT I STILL HAVE MY DOOLITTLE (EDGAR JARED) AND NEVER HAD AN INGERSOLL...
...telephone at San Jose, Figueres, apparently confident, wasted no regrets on the premature disbanding of his army: "A people is much harder to conquer than an army . . . We're not a bit worried...
...Fisher's lack of political sophistication that has caused a good bit of the trouble. Several of his accusations, such as the one on racial discrimination, are clearly unjustified, although they appear to come out of naivete rather than out of dishonesty. If, as the case seems to be, he was trying to recruit Negroes for the YRC at Registration by using a line involving Lincoln and the freeing of the Slaves, it was hardly discrimination on the part of the YRC to ask him not to continue his act. At least two of Fisher's other points cannot...
...Lewi has a pet explanation for his energetic longevity: "I have never lost any energy resisting temptation ... I have been a bit selfish all my life." He likes a Scotch highball before dinner, a glass of wine or beer before bed, and smokes 12 to 14 cigars a day. He plays both poker and bridge, often until 1 a.m., but he almost never wins, he explains, because he is a Pechvogel (unlucky person). His dream for the future is a hospital for foot sufferers. Says he: "It's funny. There are so many wealthy, gouty old men. None...
...original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful reference book but a first-rate bit of reading...