Word: bites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibitionists were delighted, anti's were disgusted, last week, to learn that a poisonous snake bite should not be followed by a powerful alcoholic drink. Dr. Afrania do Amaral, director of the snake serum institute at Butantan, Brazil, declared that far from being a remedy ". . . alcoholic liquors are harmful to persons bitten by venomous snakes." The alcohol acts first as a stimulant, speeding up the circulation, quickly distributing the poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight...
...Putnam apparently did not see this aspect of the college situation at all: she was interested in directly stimulating attention to studies. But she has done better than she know. She has strengthened a professional bugabear until it is threatening to bite the professors. Come to think of it, a public review of what is being taught in the classrooms seem an eminently healthful development...
...single bark might sacrifice a bite, so the bull dog shuts his mouth, grits his teeth and concentrates upon the job at hand...
...still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed spectacles. This gesture, observers realized, was not a conscious precaution against a bite or horned warts. Pointing with the bars of his spectacles, indefinitely, with both bars at once, is a gesture President Coolidge habitually employs to indicate a document or memorandum under discussion...
...enliven the cautious conversations at Rome, last week, came a fire eating, swashbuckling editorial from L'Impero, an arch-Fascist news organ which performs the sometimes useful function of a watch-puppy which can bark but not bite. Barked L'Impero...