Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Moses was 'holy,' but with these two their knowledge ceases." Typical Rolfe "songs": "Methuselah" Methuselah's biography is characterized by brevity. He holds the all-time record for extraordinary longevity. "Elijah the Tishbite" Elijah, the Tishbite, Couldn't make the fish bite; 'Lowed he was using the wrong kind of bait. First tried a dry fly, then tried a wet fly, Then tried a worm and he caught six or eight...
...Chicago's suburban Brookfield Zoo, Acting Director Robert Bean fired Curator of Reptiles Mrs. Grace Wiley for letting a total of 19 snakes escape at various times from their cages. Among the missing: three Egyptian cobras whose bite is usually fatal, one deadly poisonous Bandy-Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch...
Near Binghamton, N. Y., Zena Brown went swimming with red painted toenails, suddenly felt something bite off her right big toe. Her companion, Colonel Elmer E. Johnson, explained that a snapping turtle or big fish had been deceived by the painted toenail...
...YOUNG MEN-Oliver La Farge-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). For years the Indians of the Southwest played a limited part in Western fiction, usually remaining in the story just long enough to let out a war whoop and bite the dust. With the novels of Oliver La Farge, braves and squaws seem at last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They...
...There should be a chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...