Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debt-ridden New York City, the big Wall Street investment firms have always looked good for another tax touch. Since 1948, Wall Street firms have been paying 2/5 of 1% on their gross income in taxes. On July 1, the bite was raised...
...beens and would-be's of Hollywood. Mollie becomes Mike's "protege" in a sun-decked beach house on Cortez Beach ("better than Malibu"). Mike figures he can mold Mollie into another Garbo. Between picture takes, they swap dialogue. She: "That moon looks low enough to bite." He: "I have got a terrible yen for you. It's like a stomach full of broken glass." When words fail him, Mike swabs beach-tar stains off Mollie's feet and kisses her "long thin toes...
...Bite. In Hof, Germany, Brewery Worker Karl Wunderlich, 24, was convicted of breaking into a delicatessen after police fitted his teeth to marks left in the end of a 2-lb. salami...
...drive "many newspapers from the black into the red." OPS Boss Ellis Arnall, even more gloomy, said: "[It] will drive many small . . . newspapers out of business." Some publishers feared that they would have to raise their advertising and subscription rates as the only way to offset the big new bite, which will add an estimated $50 million a year to their publishing costs...
...backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas...