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Word: bites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want to go out and bite a policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frightful Film | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...appears to be dead. But the spirit of engaging fakery animating Killers of the Sea has a happier embodiment in the octopus sequence. This time ''the man of steel" rescues his buddy, a diver, bogged down by a devilfish, his airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness is the result of a skull slash by a deep-sea monster, but makes no effort to analyze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Perhaps the only way out is for the liberals to get hold of Lewis Carroll's recipes. A judicious diet of the contents of the little bottle marked "Drink Me", which shuts things up "like a telescope"; then an occasional bite of the cake marked "Eat Me", which opens things out "like the largest telescope that ever was", seems to be just what the President's disciples have been looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDICIAL DIET | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

...elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano. When Charles Turpin died of an insect bite in 1935, he left a $119,000 estate consisting chiefly of 700 shares of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Turpin's Trust | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Died. Slipper, 2, vivacious sandy Cairn terrier sent by the Duke of Windsor last month to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson; of a viper bite; in a veterinary hospital in Tours, France. Mrs. Simpson telephoned the Duke the bad news, canceled the day's engagements. Besides Slipper the Duke took with him when he abdicated Cairn terriers Cora (10), John (8), Jaggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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