Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swung down the platform to his car, and handed his valise to the porter. Examinations weren't so bad after all, be thought, but the best thing about them was their end. Might as well slip into the diner now, before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something else later on in the afternoon...
...bite the hand of President Roosevelt, whose Treasury silver purchases from Mexico have alone saved the peso from collapse, was the scarcely brilliant move made last week by President Lazaro Cardenas. Well knowing that Mr. Roosevelt wants lower tariffs all around, that they are the thing dearest to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, President Cardenas blandly raised tariffs on most things Mexico buys from the U. S. by 100 to 200%. On some items he upped them...
...however, until the official biography appeared last week was it generally known that Hermann as a little boy always encouraged his dog to bite non-Aryans. As for Tenderness, the official version records of Huntsman Göring (a great deer hunter): "He cares for a young deer found by his huntsmen with as much tenderness as he bestows on his pet lion...
...pulling her laces too tight. With white eyes leering from her hag's hood and a pimple on her nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which the only cure is love's first kiss...
Thomas Job, in dramatizing Bar Chester Towers, has altered the storytelling, removed the bite, like the gentlemen who dramatized Pride and Prejudice, Madame Bovary. Trollope's Barchester Towers smacks appreciative lips over the pettiness of an English cathedral town, controlled by Mrs. Proudie, a mean woman and a real woman, wife of its weak-minded bishop...