Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Johnson, the sort of oldtime cavalryman who would bite a horse's ear if he lost his quirt, needed any moral support it was supplied last week in the person of Bernard Mannes Baruch, his great & good friend. The tall, smiling Jew with the fine thoughtful head, arrived in Washington just as he had done almost every week for the past 20 years. But this arrival set official Washington by the ears. Amid a blaze of unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy...
...taught Donald to bite walls and people, and to peek under doors. Gua's many teeth were blunt and so hurt less than Donald's few. Gua hated perfume and asafetida; Donald liked perfume. Both reacted similarly to sweet, salty and bitter substances. Gua, however, liked sour things. Gua was more ticklish than Donald, frequently tickled herself for pleasure. Gua was first to recognize herself in a mirror, first to show interest in the pictures in a book...
...mosquito, reported Dr. Bruce Mayne. U. S. Public Health entomologist in Washington last week. (Malarial fever raises the syphilis victim's temperature and remits, sometimes cures, the paresis caused by advanced syphilis of the brain -TIME, Feb. 20.) Heretofore it has been necessary to induce malarial mosquitoes to bite paretics. Live mosquitoes are difficult to handle, often die in transit, sometimes escape with consequent danger to the community. Dr. Mayne. who learned all about mosquitoes in England. India. the Philippines and the U. S., found that by chloroforming them under a 20-power magnifying glass he could...
Jamestown, first Virginia settlement, was like a mosquito bite that is scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia hoping to find it a way-station to Eldorado, Soldier of Fortune John Smith was one of the biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured...
...Author Robert Nathan's urbanity there are as yet few signs of foppishness. Like a U. S. Anatole France (without the mordant bite of France's wit) he is both urbane and neat...