Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime president of the American Bar Association and of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and a hard-bitten Republican critic of the New Deal, is senior partner of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Short time ago Lawyer Strawn learned that the Black Committee had subpoenaed from Western Union copies of all telegrams sent or received by his firm between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew...
...even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore the flesh horribly, while after a dozen the back looked like 'so much putrefied liver.' After a time the bones showed through, blood burst from the bitten tongue and lips of the victim, and, expelled from his lungs, dribbled through his nostrils and ears. ... To be flogged through the Fleet to the tune of the 'Rogue's March' meant almost certain death, if not on the spot, a few days later; and on being sentenced to this...
...novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...
...restraint. It is hard to believe that Justice Stone's colleagues on the bench either deserve or need such a sermon. At no point in the majority opinion does the court lose the strict objectivity it has heretofore maintained. In this case Justice Stone is not addressing a frost-bitten or anti-social cabal. The decision is that of Hughes and Roberts as well as McReynolds and Van Devanter, and the charge that implacable reactionaries have blocked the road to progress cannot be made under these circumstances...
Russell Pasha, hard-bitten Briton in charge of Cairo police, kept his men at work last week riding down Egyptian students of both sexes with their horses, beating them back with the flats of their sabres, firing into the air when shouts of "Off with our British yoke!" grew too vociferous...