Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, the hard-bitten U. S. Marine who lately returned from commanding a China patrol force, last week declared to the Wayne, Pa., Chamber of Commerce...
...varying interpretations as to what it will imply, however, are as confusing as they are exasperating. All of which brings up the old proverb that if a dog bites a man, it's not news, but if a man bites a dog, it is news. The man has evidently bitten the dog in this case. Sheff, is to have a House Plan, but the news or lack of it has been so completely disconcerting, that we wonder what will happen. Yale News
When President Coolidge brought into Washington from the plains Col. Osmun Latrobe as his aide, that weather-bitten old soldier was so patiently bored that the President gave him an additional assignment as assistant to the Chief of Cavalry...
Acidulous, hard-bitten Philip Snowden, the only member of the Labor Party who has ever been Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, stumped into a London court, last week, on his heavy, rubber-tipped crutches...
...Khan of the plank and a king of the sea and a great Lord of Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with...