Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court martial was indefinitely postponed, and he was transferred to a dangerous advanced post, kept there on the supposition that sooner or later he would be killed. Day after he tells Berlin his story a shell gets him. At his funeral Berlin meets Kroysing's brother, a hard-bitten sapper lieutenant, tells him the story. Lieutenant Kroysing swears vengeance. He manages lo gel his brother's company transferred to the dreaded Fort of Douaumont, intends to keep them there until he gets a signed confession from the captain that he knowingly sent young Kroysing to his death...
...founder of a new sect digs up his wife's grave, is bitten by a copperhead. His corpse is then arrested by the constable on the charge of "Public Indecency...
...Miss Temple most winningly mistakes for an old acquaintance, thinking him a stork. It is really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether she may stay with her sea-bitten pals or must go to an institution, one comes remarkably close to the familiar midyear-finals feeling. And when the tension is broken, and Guy and Slim come crashing through the window where they had been watching, one chuckles with re- lief even though he recognizes this...
...flocked to the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in such droves as to necessitate the hanging out of the standing-room-only sign a New Lecture Hall. The repeated packing of Emerson D. last year necessitated this change of venue, which happily has proven all too confining for a Frost-bitten audience. The next rung of the ladder is Sanders Theatre which holds about three hundred more people than the New Lecture Hall and is Harvard's largest auditorium. A change to this new location should be made for the remaining three lectures so that Mr. Frost's inflated audience...
Johannes Gäntschow was the hard-bitten son of a hard-bitten father. His family of island farmers went back into pre-Christian times, and each generation was a little harder than the one before. Because his father took a scunner against him, Hannes was condemned to be educated. While his brothers and sisters were brought up to be farmers he learned the three R's with the local pastor. Christiane, the Count's daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away...