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After an absence of eight years, the too-biter has finally returned to Harvard. It was discovered by a Freshman yesterday afternoon patiently waiting by the unlighted lamp-post outside of President Lowell's home on Quincy Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN DISCOVERS BUG NOT SEEN IN EIGHT YEARS | 5/5/1933 | See Source »

...Biter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Antioch, 111., convicted by a jury of having bitten the town marshal, Biter John Brogan dived into the jury box, rapidly bit eight jurors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...House is a sporting body. It loves a fight. And the House is a sportsmanlike body. It loves to see the biter bitten, especially after the biter has barked loudly and snapped from behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Burnt Brand | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...seen him do it; he too knew that he was guilty. He had broken an edict relating to decency. No escape was possible. Already burly bluecoats were nudging through the crowd; while the onlookers hooted, mooed, clapped and guffawed, they led him off to jail. For this coin-biter was H. L. Mencken, journalist; by accepting the 50¢ as payment for a copy of the green-covered magazine, The American Mercury, of which he is the editor, he had broken an edict which barred that magazine from sale in Boston as "indecent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hatrack | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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