Word: bites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horrors and glories it represented. This man, whose power over the Italian people can be compared to that of Mussolini and d'Annunzio, was nominated a Fascist Deputy as a compliment and a tribute. That was before he bared his fangs and showed that his bite was more powerful than his bark. When, earlier in the year, he bitterly attacked Fascismo, his Fascist comrades were not so sure that they had done a good thing for the Party by giving him a seat. And, as he stood upon the floor of the Chamber last week, the Opposition was more...
Protocol. All during September, the drafsmen labored on the protocol and then presented to the Assembly an elaborate document of 21 articles- 21 teeth that are to make the League's bite mightier than his bark. Ex-Premier Aristide Briand of France, chief French delegate to the Assembly, asseverated...
...before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless. I answer nobody; I receive nobody. Neither prayer nor insolences can break my monastic enclosure. My dogs are wise and bite well. Have I made myself clear...
Wise dogs that bite well...
...manuscripts which I have in my keeping, music written by men now living who will rank as high a century from now as Mozart or Beethoven!" No enemy to Jazz is Koussevitzky. It is stated of him that in London one night, stopping at a supper-club for a bite, he heard some young Americans rendering their native melodies. He listened; his bite grew cold. "I like good music," said...