Word: bitten
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...society to a Greek sponge-divers' island, went the rest of their downward journey together. Freeth was a South of England boy who had run away from home and wandered in some shady places before he murdered a French prostitute in her Marseille hotel. Skinner was a hard-bitten skipper who had wrecked one too many ships for his crooked employers. Legge was a burned-out writer who had taken to drink, to help him forget his responsibility for two women's deaths. Weisendonck, London Jew, was wanted for swindling. The Sicilian police were after Malatesta...
...Surrealism, safe from parody because nobody could tell the difference between the two, is highly susceptible to derision, and in the course of the evening it gets its. Even the English peerage is not forgotten, but you should see by now what a colossal chunk this jolly entertainment has bitten off for itself...
Slang, not the weak, evasive variety, but the short, vibrant phrases, bitten off neatly, inseparably linked with a harsh nasal drawl, and dear to every trans-Mississippi heart, such slang will set, many a pair of ears tingling. Frightened men are no longer gravely alarmed; they have the hell scared out of them. Superlatives are no longer the acme of this or that; they are the cat's pajamas...
...Andrew Jackson, who resented the Court as hotly as Thomas Jefferson had and Franklin Roosevelt does, struck at the foundation of its power by urging repeal of a crucial section of the Judiciary Act of 1789. Unsuccessful, and only partly mollified as death made vacancies for Democrats, the hard-bitten old Indian fighter crystallized his view of the Supreme Court in a traditional comment on the decision which first gave Indians their legal status as government wards, "John Marshall has made his decision," Jackson roared, "Now let him enforce...
Died. Myrtle Huddleston, 39, first woman to complete the 20-mile swim from Catalina Island to the California mainland (1927); of heart disease; in San Francisco. During her Catalina swim she was bitten about the arms by a barracuda, landed after 20 hr. 42 min. with her left side paralyzed. In 1931 in a Manhattan pool she set a world's swimming endurance record...