Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground in view of "the large amount of dishonesty and pilfering of rationed commodities." At that, 150 Keevil workers went on strike, refused to arbitrate until Bryant was reinstated, appealed for support to Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters. No Keevil provisions reached the shops, frustrated housewives bit their nails, and clever Jack Bryant sat at home with his six kids, snapping his lighter...
...Capp himself is more of a writer than an illustrator. Like most comics, his strips are stories with standard scenes and characters, and liberal slices of cheesecake on the side. But the profusion of bit parts in Capp's cast-Lonesome Polecat, Fearless Fosdick, Stubborn J. Tolliver and Skelton McCloset the murdering musician-are unforgettably pictured...
...policies to Lanny Budd compares himself to a man driving three horses: "One of these horses is young and wild; that is my New Deal group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time, and I have to put a curb-bit in that horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman...
Over the years, Xavier has grown from a high school to a university-rated Class A by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools-"a good school, even if I do say so." Its enrollment has climbed from 47 to 1,100. Bit by bit, the sisters have added to it-a graduate school of arts and sciences, a college of pharmacy, a school of education, a school of social service. Courses include everything from Greek to journalism...
...girls (Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse) and summer whites by the men (Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante). The story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight to see. Durante, at one point, reads a script line that sounds dangerously like a capsule review of On an Island...