Word: tidbit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sophisticates last week clucked over a new tidbit about Alexander Woollcott, roly-poly chatterbox of The New Yorker. According to the New York World-Telegram, Mr. Woollcott was out of The New Yorker, ostensibly because the editors disapproved of ribald anecdotes with which he had lately spiced his "Shouts & Murmurs" page...
...stood Old Tutor Jorga to raise boldly in Rumania's Senate the issue created by His Majesty in continuing to live in open sin with a Jewish wench. To many a U. S. newsreader King Carol's liaison with red-headed Magda Lupescu is only a spicy tidbit cooked up by sexational tabloids, but as a matter of fact in intensely anti-Semitic Rumania their relationship is a real and burning national issue...
...farm" movement. You will be struck immediately by the insight given into the situation. But apparently, Professor Zimmerman, with that load off his chest feels that the work for the year has been done and you will soon realize that you have been treated to the only original tidbit in the course...
...bail dangled before the avaricious eyes of the counsel for the defense was $2500 and the sale gave the Record the right to publish any tidbit it wished over the signature of Norma, until she should be released from the custody of the state by acquittal. In the case of conviction it is not too fantastic to suppose that the serial could go on indefinitely...
...House of Representatives passes many a tidbit of a bill because no member arouses himself to say "I object." But one noon last week the House assembled in anything but a "unanimous consent" mood...