Word: tit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tree by a Brook-let a little tom-tit Did bellow, and bellow, and bellow...
...York State Athletic Commission started something last fortnight which may move boxing westward from the eastern seaboard. Dogmatic and irascible Big Jim Farley, chairman, started the Commission. The Commission had given Max Schmeling his tit's when Sharkey fouled him last June, stipulating then that he must sign within nine months to meet an opponent picked by them. They picked Jack Sharkey, ordered Schmeling, through his manager and proxy, Joe Jacobs, to sign with Sharkey at once or forfeit his title. Jacobs suggested that the Commission arrange for Sharkey to fight Stribling, the winner to meet Schmeling. Both fights...
...Rumanian scene today there remains secure (if not supreme) the master intrigant His Grey Eminence General Alexandre Averescu. Seemingly no freak of fortune, no blow of fate can dislodge him from his niche of power. He used to alternate as Prime Minister with the Bratianus, he has played courtly tit-tat-to with Queen Marie, he gives fatherly advice to George Bratianu, and by King Carol he was recently made a Marshal of Rumania. To widowed Mme Vintila Bratianu, His Majesty wired condolence, praising the "energy and labor" of her husband. His funeral was almost regal. Three special trains conveyed...
Wales. Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, made his first solo flights, in a Tom-Tit biplane, without a license (his father having requested that none be allowed...
...types of gas-mask were always being issued. One kind was known in Graves' battalion as "the goggle-eyed b-r with the tit." Graves' nose had been broken boxing, so he had to have an operation while on leave in order to breathe through the mask. In July, 1916, he was so severely wounded in the lung by a shell that he was reported dead, and the colonel wrote a letter of condolence to his mother. Later, in England, he had difficulty cashing cheques because of his illegal vitality...