Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...wasn't that "momentarily" crack of yours a bit below the belt-say down about the shinbone...
...bodies and told them wild adventure stories to keep them happy. Said one of the rescued children: "We didn't have breakfast any day. The first meal was lunch. Each of us got half a biscuit. Sometimes with it we got a piece of sardine, or a little bit of meat, and one day each of us got one-eighth of a peach...
...acquired a facility for playing the banjo and clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold by greeting each bit of sparse applause with a tender "Thank you, mother...
...that. Historical settings would be sketched in by three or four tinkles of a harpsichord. Seeing the movie version of Our Town the other day brought home forcibly to me the tremendous recent advance in the quality of cinema music. Aaron Copland's score seemed to me every bit as impressive as the story itself, and people who heard the score done separately assure me that it is just as moving, though in a different way of course, off the screen as it is on. This should be enough to convince any skeptics who doubt the future of movie music...
...while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...