Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duties of Women. He was friendly with greater men, like Voltaire and Pope, but his satiric wit was to theirs as a mosquito bite to a wasp's sting. Offered the chance to sponsor Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, he muffed it so badly that years later an embittered Johnson rebuffed him with a classic retort: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and. when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Most of the distance they traveled by log canoe, moving overland when rapids and falls made the river too dangerous. Swarms of mosquitoes and jejenes ( a tiny black gnat whose bite raises large welts) harassed them all the way. The high, thick jungle along the river banks cut off the sun and every portage had to be hacked clear with machetes...
...theater-wise and drama-foolish. Necessarily lacking the fullness of the book, it much less excusably lacks the bite. The second act is an overlong flashback that reduces Charles's whole past to a magazine-fiction romance without appreciably illuminating the present. The third act is just an exercise in suspense over whether Charles will be made vice president...
...wisecracks of MacMurray and McGuire, the elaborate innocence of Callaway's double, the real Smoky's talent for caching liquor so cleverly that he stays bewilderingly plastered throughout his alcoholic cure. Hopalong, however, need not call the sheriff. Callaway bares its teeth only to grin, not to bite; and it provides parents with welcome comic relief from the hoofbeats that have invaded the U.S. home...
...distinct from that of man, whose dirty mouth, even if non-rabid, makes his bite the most likely to cause serious local infection...