Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wojnowski, Poland's consul in Milan, Italy, was a bit subtler about it but he had the same general idea. A studious, courteous, bespectacled book collector, he had never been very happy in his consulate. Last summer, after a trip home, he cut out meat, ate only tea and toast for supper and gave up buying books. Staffers wondered why he was saving his pennies. Last week they found...
...Bears, the Packers had played four other clubs, only one of whom gained more than eleven (11) yards rushing. Now Packer Coach E. L. "Curly" Lambean had gone ahead and in no uncertain terms declared that this team was the greatest thing to hit Wisconsin since Schlitz, every bit as good as his championship aggregations of 1929, '30, and '31 and the players knew it. The Bears were just ordinary Godfearing pro football players. They had Lujack, Luckman, and Layne and they stopped the Packers cold, 45-7. Overconfidence! Next time these two teams meet, the Packers will probably cream...
Several hundred cubic yards of dirt have appeared in the middle of the Charles River trail up where they're building a now bridge. Last Friday's University handicap looks like the last bit of practice that will be done on that course this year...
...Arthur Wing Pinero or Henry Arthur Jones and accept the report that Belasco is dead. "The Leading Lady," the play involving the two Miss Gordons (both of whom are married to the play's director--which suggests a dilemma more interesting than the current play) is an unreal bit of pink fluff that might be found floating about in the mind of some stage-struck school girl, no where else...
During his speech, Ayer said, "Having a 'few' Communists in the governement or in citizen groups is like being 'a little bit' pregnant - there's no such thing...