Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vaudeville gags, funny sheets, Walter-Winchellisms. It is a tribute to his skill as a merciless horser of musi-comedy scenes, dialog and situation that he is still able to raise many a horse laugh. Packy, U. S. Adonis, ex-Yale footballer and recent millionaire, has bitten off more than he really wants to chew in getting engaged to a beautiful English bluestocking. Fat, henpecked Mr. Gedge is in an even tougher spot, living in enforced exile from his beloved California, his Shriner tendencies sternly held in check by a wife who intends to make him U. S. Ambassador...
...Antioch, 111., convicted by a jury of having bitten the town marshal, Biter John Brogan dived into the jury box, rapidly bit eight jurors...
Local Government, represented by the Mayors of 26 important U. S. cities, met in Detroit last week to beg the Federal Government for a helping hand to carry the burden of urban unemployment and public distress. The meeting was called by aggressive, hard-bitten Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, which has spent itself almost to the brink of bankruptcy supporting its needy.* On hand among the 20 Democrats, four Republicans, one Socialist and one Farmer-Laborite, were New York's Walker, Boston's Curley, Richmond's Bright, Syracuse's Marvin, New Orleans' Walmsley, Miami's Gautier, Milwaukee's Hoan, Cleveland...
...Haverhill, Mass., after a friend's merry bridal shower at Lithuanian Hall. Mrs. Francis Orbich was led to the home of Mrs. George Karpich where she went to sleep on the floor. In the morning she was found dead. In her sleep she had bitten two of her fingers so deeply that she bled to death...
...delivered to him at every station. Oilman Kingsbury retaliated by sending a truck filled with water buffaloes, elks, and lesser animals C. O. D. to the bank, its arrival being announced by a lusty, liveried bugler. Mr. Fleishhacker was once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking and growling. Another time he set a trap in Mr. Kingsbury's office so that when the oilman opened the door 100 pigeons flew into his face. Hilarious was the scene when...