Word: bitin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl himself was not so much a root as a full-grown shoot. He had split away from Huey in 1931, calling his brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
...than many bank presidents'. Johnny now breeds horses and cattle on his own ranch, averages close to $100,000 a year by riding. What is his technique for winning a race? Says Johnny, with the air of a man who has made it all clear: "I just keep bitin' and chewin', bitin' and chewin...
...taking over the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, the terrible days of gunfire, burning, looting. O'Casey, with hundreds of others, was corralled and locked up by British soldiers. "Th' wild Irish," said a soldier then; "drink goes to their 'eads. Wot was bitin' em? Barmy, th' lot of 'em. Wot did they do it for? Larfable." "Poor, dear, dead men," says O'Casey now, "poor W. B. Yeats." The wit and rich lingo of Juno and the Paycock, the legendary and the tragic, real Ireland of The Plough...