Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were arrested with Lieutenant Governor Hayes on this and other counts. Last month when the trials began Mr. Hayes and 22 others pleaded not guilty. Two other defendants pleaded guilty, one of them Harry Mackenzie,† longtime first lieutenant of Connecticut's late Republican dictator, hard-bitten John Henry Roraback...
...Coffin is one of these elect, and he not only has absorbed the feeling of countrified, sea-bitten Maine, but he has written poems about it that can carry his sensations to those unlucky wretches who have never seen its shores. In his second collection of Pine Tree verses, entitled "Maine Ballads," he treats almost solely Maine men and women...
...unwonted characters moved within President Roosevelt's orbit last week- a hard-bitten former Rum Row sea captain and a brash, lanky senior at the University of North Carolina...
...that time the dictatorial bug had bitten King Carol. The Iron Guard leadership was dangerous and must at least be imprisoned. The official version of the killing was that the 14 were shot down while trying to escape from their guards as they were being transferred to another prison. But none but the most unsophisticated doubted that the Government of the Dictator-King had ordered the killing. A few hours later the Government ordered the ruthless suppression of all terrorism...
...bowed curtly before a tornado of applause, then pounced upon the opening measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists half his age, still held his place among the world's top pianists...