Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, on Founder's Day, President Harry Truman drove to Girard College to help celebrate its centennial. The college has a 42-acre campus whose classical buildings rise like a bit of ancient Athens out of a drab part of midtown Philadelphia. Girard is not really a college at all, but the richest boarding school in the world (its endowment: $90 million). Harry Truman inspected everything, put away an enormous roast beef luncheon, accepted a pupil-fashioned bronze statuette of the Founder, listened to a 16-year-old pianist play Chopin, planted a pair of sapling twinoaks...
Marie Cord revealed two of her heart's desires--and a little bit more--last night while cavorting around The Gay Nineties in a moving little epic titled "Mrs. Bottomly's Bustle...
Some 70 hours later Russia joined the U.S. in recognition. This week, still moving at top speed, the U.S. demanded that the Security Council use an international military force, if necessary, to restore peace in Palestine. Russia, again a little bit behind, echoed the idea...
Three months ago, when the prelates of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral read his statement in the New York Times, they decided that Composer Harris, who describes himself as "a shouting Methodist," had shouted a bit too loudly. St. Pat's had planned to perform Harris' new Mass for Men's Voices and Organ on Easter Sunday. The plans were dropped...
...London music hall is no accident. She calls herself a Cockney, though she was actually born in the London suburb of Lewisham, beyond the sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...