Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention time, only a few of Drew's Bay Street backers were around his headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...
...phone said it was a bit of an emergency. Could Mrs. Dorothy Dobson sing top D flat? "Just a minute," said Dorothy. She had just had a baby and felt a little out of practice. She went to her piano, tried the note, and then reported back: yes, she could sing top D flat...
...only one who wasn't fretting last week was modest Dorothy Dobson. She had always dreamed of being a famous singer-and this was fame of a sort. She only wished her three notes had been better. "They were," said she, "the tiniest bit sharp...
...humor and a sort of icy gaiety, Holt gambles, soft-soaps, bludgeons, picklocks his way out of scrapes and up the ladder. And the play's interest really lies much less in whom he does it for than in how he does it; the Edward role seems a bit of a phony as well as a phantom...
...become preachy and dreadfully sentimental. What is worst about his writing is that he has uncertain taste; he never knows when to stop. He begins with a moving description of Noah's pain at coming across anti-Semitism in the army and then collapses into a completely incredible bit of hocus-pocus in which Noah fights ten big soldiers, one by one, gets beaten up and sent to the hospital and is never helped by any officer in the Army camp. While there was anti-Semitism in the Army, it never resembled Shaw's paranoiac version...