Word: whit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dream-like veil over the whole episode. Not until May, when her kennel rolled with black puppy-shapes, was she sure that she had really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King, Thunderstorm), now deserves a niche no whit below Christopher Morley's (Where the Blue Begins), from dog-lovers. If he could read it, Toes would ejaculate: "Great Spratt! I say, you chaps, that is a book! My copy is all dog-eared." It would impress Kim, too, but being reticent and profane, he would doubtless growl...
...stars of "What Every Woman Knows", gave advice to the cast at a tea.--Courtesy Alumni Bulletin.THE PI ETA "GIRLS" GET A LESSON IN LOVE-MAKING FROM HELEN HAYES AND HER LEADING MAN Left to Right: R. W. Turner '28, Kenneth MacKenna, Helen Hayes, A. E. French '29, Howard whit more...
...Kern Countyites the mice were, however, no laughing matter. The invasion, which began a month ago, had devastated 100 square miles. Three big oil companies had dug 26 miles of trenches. Horticulture Commissioner Whit C. Barber of California estimated the total property damage...
Were we abashed? Not a whit. Gritting our teeth we advanced. Two bears, a slightly worn ulster, and a radical attacked us, but we fought them off. Only ten more inches and the deed was filed done. I looked at Fish. He was perspiring freely so that he looked much more like a person at a fancy dress ball than the intrepid explorer...
...Alan's reception was no whit cooler, for all that. Encouraged by Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous...