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...When the Queen Bee moves forward, the workers back away in a circle. Doubtless the Queen Bee blushes and the workers titter; but doubtless also both sides enjoy it and wax in virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Diddled | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

...Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed the group; they laid hands upon one another, crowing; they pressed their sides, their eyes watered freely, they stamped upon the ground; some, more abandoned, slipped limply down and rolled, helpless, among the feet of those left standing. Oshkosh! They had seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Belleair Golf | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Mapes, of Harvard University and Easthampton, L. I. Recalling how those Greenwich hills had seen him larrupped by Dexter Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long tiled porch of Shenecossett Country Club, at New London, Conn., was all a-titter and aflutter with 175 women, flocked thither for one of the season's larger invitation tournaments. Sober and serious, young Glenna Collett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Aug. 11, 1924 | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...Committee began to titter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSCLE SHOALS: Miss, Kiss, Bliss | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...recreate the 1890's for us. In the face of a healthy vanity which is spreading slowly through contemporary writing, he poses in gold tights and a cap and bells. I admire his courage and his independence; but I'd rather laugh my belly-laughter with Rabelais than titter and snicker over Carl Van Vechten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carl Van Vechten | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

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