Word: bit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Back to her comfortable little Huis Ten Bosch ("House in the Woods") drove gloomy Queen Wilhelmina, having made no mention of the one bit of news all Holland is waiting for: the engagement of apple-cheeked Crown Princess Juliana to Prince Bertil, third son of Sweden's Crown Prince...
...elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried a tea tray for Sessue Hayakawa, did a bit in a Lon Chancy picture, played in a Hal Roach two-reeler, acted with Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad. She got an even better chance to exhibit her ability in a German picture called-but not in her honor-Tsong, Tsong (1928) was widely successful, made Anna May Wong...
...Baron to be in two places at once, he goes to England while Charlier impersonates him at home. When the Baron returns, he hops into bed with the Baroness (Ruth Weston), thinking she thinks he is his double. Out of this situation Authors Lothar and Adler work the last bit of suggestiveness. Charlier's cabaret-girl mistress (Tamara Geva) disrobes...
...legs & socks much in evidence this year. Lest snobbery or cliquishness raise its head. Wellesley charges the same for all dormitory rooms, assigns them by lot. Priding itself on a well-rounded life, Wellesley is inclined to think Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke rather grindish. Smith and Vassar a bit too social. A song often heard on chapel steps...
...normal environment. There, say champions of separate colleges, they are distracted and dominated by men, miss the separate college's stimulus to leadership and a vigorous intellectual life. Says President Marion Edwards Park of Bryn Mawr: "Segregation at the college age doesn't hurt a bit. It teaches an appreciation of each other sadly lacking in women who have no chance to see their sex in control. The absence of sexual and social pressure is an intellectual advantage rather than a liability...