Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German offensive." This, sir, is a pretty swinish thins to write: the sth Army did not run before any attack, at any time. My own battalion-one of all those who stood and fought-was reduced to about 80 men out of (on the 21st) some 790. The '"bite" resulted from the lack of reserves to support the first three lines in those last days of the month...
...first railway worker in history to be canonized as a saint was the subject of preliminary ceremonies towards beatification at Vatican City last week. Paolo Pio Perazzo, who died in 1910, was poisoned by the bite of a mad dog while attempting to aid a child whom the dog had attacked. He had led a life of piety and devotion, throwing all his energies into the task of assisting railwaymen to improve the con- ditions under which they lived and worked. In return the Italian Railwaymen's Association is now contributing funds for the expense of Perazzo...
...Sydney, Australia. Her fate was a hideous, unnamed disease. In Cairo, some time ago, she contracted what was presumably some form of Leishmaniasis, a disease characterized by many boils and caused by a microscopic animal parasite which gets into the blood stream supposedly by bedbug or louse bite. She appeared to be cured in the Autumn before leaving England for Australia. On shipboard she suffered a relapse, was carried ashore to Melbourne on a cot. A German doctor who had helped her in the early stages of the disease directed treatment by cable. Three times King George and Queen Mary...
...Paul, when the German Grand Opera visited there last year, the Grane was Daisy, a local two-ton, snow-white mare who earns her living regularly by pulling a milkwagon. Daisy looked the part admirably but she objected to the singing of Soprano Johanna Gadski, balked, tried to bite. Last week grumpy Daisy had her punishment. Despite financial difficulties met with on the Pacific Coast, the Germans are returning to St. Paul, will again give Götterdämmerung. Daisy has been re-engaged to sing Grane but this time she is being rehearsed by members of the Women...
...Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck. It will cause you humiliation. There is a difference in the tails...