Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hideout had been constructed near the White House laundries where Secretary Walter Newton could hold secret political interviews; 4) Mrs. Newton had fallen from her horse into the Rapidan. The only story that Secretary Joslin branded as untrue was one to the effect that a Hoover wolfhound bit a Marine guard and the President, patting the animal's head, remarked: "Nice doggie! Now go bite General [Smedley Darlington] Butler...
...Herbert Hoover will sponsor the Akron at the christening Aug. 8, at the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio. But Mrs. Hoover, practiced though she is at swinging bottles against bows, will swing no bottle of liquid air. The stuff is dangerous to handle, would instantly freeze any bit of flesh upon which it might splash. Instead Mrs. Hoover will set free a flock of white pigeons...
...where gold is stored, to the east wing of the White House runs a dark little tunnel under East Executive Avenue. Many times through this tunnel last week passed a thickset, youngish man with a big nose and eyes of clearest blue. He wore a linen suit. His teeth bit hard into a Benson & Hedges cigar. He walked fast. Out of the tunnel he skirted the rear portico of the White House (where the presidential kennels are), paced down the west colonnade, marched unannounced by a back door into the offices of the President of the U. S. Nobody barred...
After years of door-bell-pulling and poll-watching, he ran for Congress in 1912, surprised his family not a bit by being roundly beaten. Two years later, however, he did get himself elected to the New York State Senate, served two terms. He was with the A. E. F. as a captain. The Harding landslide of 1920 carried him into a seat in Congress from Manhattan's "blue stocking" district (upper Fifth and Park Avenues, the seat now held by Oil Widow Ruth Pratt...
...Pittsburgh William Creco, 25, was kissing Mrs. Margaret Fritz, 28, goodnight when suddenly he bit off the end of her nose. Arrested, he said: "I love...