Word: morsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heckling Nazi radio system, the thought of Britishers being debagged by impolite little Japanese sentries in China has been a constant delight. So an an-schlussed Vienna station this month concocted a morsel of doggerel, in English, commemorating the situation in a vaudeville program relayed by all the other stations in Ostmark. The doggerel...
...Beauty for the Asking" is notable chiefly for the presence of a tidy little morsel named Lucille Ball. The young lady, it may be said, is very badly dressed and very good looking. "Farmyard Symphony," the Walt Disney aperitif on the bill, is not so tasty as usual, but adds its share of seasoning to the film menu...
Among the English novelists who bite as well as bark, Storm Jameson is a lively terrier. She pounces on an idea, gets a firm grip on it, shakes, worries, chews it to bits. Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat. For several years she has been chewing a huge bone-The Mirror in Darkness, a pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends...
...Bondster Buckner had tried to get legislation through Congress which would have helped Philippine Railway Co. To help lobby his bills through, he threw a party for some Congressmen at the Carlton Hotel. To make it a real party, he flew five Broadway cuties down to Washington, including a morsel called Doris ("Peewee") Donalson...
...fortnight ago was knocked into a 25-ft. moat by her mate; by shooting, after X-rays showed she would never recover from broken vertebrae; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Death came also to the U. S.'s only pangolin (TIME, Sept. 12). Cause: strangulation on a food morsel too big for its tiny mouth...