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Word: bitten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alas, all was forever lost. The waiter, a kindhearted man, could not smooth over this atrocity. He simply staggered back as if the father had bitten him in the nose, and blurted out violently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/20/1935 | See Source »

...fashioned Southern democracy. It has been conducted by a dependable gentleman of the old school, so stately, intelligent, kindly, honorable, and yet so firm . . . that it is hard to suggest that, in the circumstances, there might have been a better choice than Cordell Hull. . . . But in these hard-bitten days we needed a realist. . . . We had two outstanding Democratic world figures who answered that description-Bernard Baruch and Owen Young. ... On the economic side, our foreign policy is a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Flop, Mess, Tangle | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...been drunk, been gypped, had a fight, broken a leg, had a party, caught cold, been robbed, had company, been married, bought a car, been visiting, broken an arm, been courting, been divorced, been arrested, stolen anything, gone bughouse, lost your hair, had a birthday, had an anniversary, been bitten by a snake, had an accident, cut a new tooth or had an operation- Get in touch with a representative of the Gazette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Drunk? Divorced? Dead? | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Hull howitzers, Johnny and Joe Handrahan, will again be in the lineup, and although John will not start in today's game as will Brother Joe, he is slated for almost certain relief work. Beside Joe, will be perhaps the most colorful player on the Green squad, hard-bitten, bulldog-jawed, Carl "Mutt" Ray, last year's honorably mentioned candidate for All-American honors at center, a 192-pound powerhouse who holds down the pivot position on the offense and backs up the line with bone-crushing tackling when Dartmouth plays defensively...

Author: By Skip Brown, SPORTS COLUMNIST, THE DALLY DARTMOUTH | Title: Veteran Eleven From Hanover Will Descend on Stadium as of Old to Continue Ancient Rivalry | 10/26/1935 | See Source »

...accident was it that Italy's third claw was put in charge of her ablest colonial general. General Rodolfo Grazi-ani, hard bitten veteran of many a Libyan skirmish, was plowing north last week from Italian Somaliland at the head of mixed Italian and colonial troops. The terrain he will have to cross is a shade easier than that facing the other two armies, but the distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Solemn Hours | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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