Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than his bite and who probably is a good fellow at heart; that he does not count in a land that produces eighty-story buildings, motors by the million and wheat by the billions of bushels...
...Czechoslovakia, as Leopold Grund stood at the altar waiting to be married, he went mad with hydrophobia from a dog bite of weeks before...
...Dudley, president, called the meeting to order and explained to the new members that the object of the bureau is to give legal aid to members of Harvard University and to people of the community who are too poor to bite an attorney but are in need of his services. Although each of the 32 members is a student in the Harvard Law School, he also acts as a regular attorney in giving legal advice, effecting settlements and going into court when necessary...
...befits the reminiscent, sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...
...does not want them. Hence Pittsburgh's Director of Health, Dr. Charles Buckley Maits had to wait until Mike Rusco, 45, should develop rabies as he was practically certain to do. Then, since there is no cure, but only prevention for rabies, when Mike Rusco's bite or froth from his mouth becomes dangerous to the community. Dr. Maits would imprison him "until the inevitable end comes...