Word: bites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of Mr. Volstead; but most of all, consider his lot when the very mouth he supplies turns to whisper against him. Of all those among whom he plies his nefarious trade, rumor has it that the student is most addicted to his wares; that the student should bite the hand that feeds him, or more strictly, act against the man that gives him to drink, is incredible...
...main he is tenaciously faithful to it. The trouble is that he is no more able to handle a subject with the tragedic poetntialities belonging to this one, than is the present cast capable of creating the necessary stage illusion. It is case of a large, undigested bite on the part of the playwright, wrangled through by the actors to a conclusion which is powerful in spite of itself. Briefly the story concerns an unrequited love, and it must be said in due praise, that there is nothing halfway in the lack of reciprocation,--neither is the plot in this...
...William Gibbs McAdooing. Ever since he magnanimously withdrew his own name, for the alleged sake of party harmony, it has rankled with Mr. McAdoo that Candidate Smith did not do likewise. Mr. McAdoo is so Dry that he has sworn he would do almost anything to make Candidate Smith bite the dust: "I don't care what happens to me but-." What better agent for this purpose could Mr. McAdoo have found than a Dry and a Catholic whose prestige began to surpass his own as long ago as the 1924 convention? At that convention, Senator Walsh waved aside...
...Harvard man demurred. "A section man's answers should, I believe, have a certain pungency or alliteration or something that will pique the attention. Something like 'Too tenuous' or 'You do not catch the bite of the question'. That's the way one writes magazine articles...
...when English machine guns shot holes in a fiery burst for Irish freedom. Some of the characters are patriots; some of them are drunken philosophers; one is a chubby prostitute in scarlet silk. The story tells the stark sorrow of a young bride whose patriot husband dies from the bite of English bullets. She loses her baby; loses her mind...