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Word: pitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pitter-patter little toes, that's the way the dancer goes; skillful hands and manners sleek--broken hearts and droll bezique." So twitters and is twitted, and Hollywood dissembles another vapidity as young as the world, trotting out the freshly dusted effigies of Eros as it cheers the hero on to freedom from the thralldom of his conceit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/24/1934 | See Source »

...living room. On it was engraved: "Calvin Coolidge-1872-1933." Above it hung an oil painting of the onetime Presidential yacht Mayflower, one of Calvin Coolidge's few genuine diversions in office. Harry Ross stood close by. The only sound in the stillness of the house was the pitter-patter of Tiny Tim's claws as the Coolidge chow came & went on the hardwood floors. Far away through the same night with many a long whistle there roared a 13-car special bearing the great of Washington to Northampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Coolidge | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...Author. In a pitter-pattering introduction, Will H. Hays, Tsar of the cinema, thinks it "not without significance" that ''John Drinkwater, the distinguished dramatic poet . . . should have turned to industry for a new subject." Originally in the insurance business, John Drinkwater first attracted England's attention as a poet, then wrote plays in verse, then in prose. Some of them: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Alary Stuart. He has also written biographies: Mr. Charles, King of England, The Pilgrim of Eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adulator | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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