Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen or so non-legislative tax experts who normally attend all such committee conclaves, let out two hungry Senators for a hasty bite, let out the House conferees for a brief separate meeting, then readmitted them. When the whole committee finally emerged, the conferees announced, with delighted beams, that after nearly six months of drafting, debate and conferences, Congress finally had a tax bill destined soon to become the law of the land...
...time being NBC only sniffed, did not bite. But last week Philadelphia newshawks revealed that Manager Allen had caught at least three Philadelphia Orchestra men in the act of reaching for XBC contracts. A six-months-notice clause in their contracts (upheld by American Federation of Musicians' President Joseph N. Weber at a special Manhattan conference) foiled Trombonist Charles Gusikoff and Contrabassist Anton Torello. But prized Horn Player Arthur I. Berv got loose, signed up with NBC. Oboist Tabuteau and Flutist Kincaid, whose Philadelphia salaries are rumored to be in the neighborhood of $300 per week, would...
...China is a dish of macaroni: too long to swallow, and too tough to bite off," said Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, citing a current Oriental proverb as he spoke on his recent observations in the Far East before a packed house at the Geographical Institute yesterday afternoon...
...Palos Park's hole in the ground no single adult mosquito will fly-for which the valley's residents may thank their itching stars, for a single female mosquito can beget in a single season 75 times as many bloodthirsty offspring as there are human beings to bite on the face of the earth...
...Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot."-As You Like...