Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House is a sporting body. It loves a fight. And the House is a sportsmanlike body. It loves to see the biter bitten, especially after the biter has barked loudly and snapped from behind...
...Bitten. In Chicago Frank Martin, 36, a hobo, lying down drunk in a police station to sleep by the stove near a big, muzzled airedale, bit the dog, was fined $200 (not for this act, but for violating the prohibition laws...
Blood spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates the pages of history. Many an ardent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause since Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for the sake of autonomy in the Emerald Isle. But at least we have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care...
...strike, but not before eleven strikers and spectators were killed and many a trooper and civilian was stoned or clubbed. Bitter and bloody as the strike was, it brought wisdom to all steel employers and eventual benefits to the employes. In the battle Mr. Schwab had been a hard-bitten fighter for the Carnegie Steel Co.; in the peace his natural bonhomie won the goodwill of returned employes...
...impertinences; then, mianmian, "no detail is too petty to try to print correctly;" then you order a subscriber to REREAD your "political spectrum," whatever that is; the last three letters a mere waste of space; all are included because they pat your funny little paper on its curly, flea-bitten head...