Word: gnaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While only unauthenticated guesses covered the committee's activities as it raced against time to have a bill ready for the Senate to gnaw on by Aug. 19, outside-tariff developments were...
That is a spirillum that lives in the blood of rats and mice.† It causes the rodents no inconvenience. However when infected mice bite grown-ups or gnaw off the succulent fingers, toes, ears and lips of infants the attacked humans contract a shaking fever...
...Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime it is not necessary wholly to damn the merry-merry, which is, to some, a bone on which to gnaw during a famine...
...Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically. The lady of the film is Isabel Jeans, blond as honey. The plot gyrates masterfully. Few spines will fail to gyrate when exposed to it. The Notorious Lady (Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford). Her ill fame was gained in court, where she painted herself a scarlet woman...
...Thompson, now backing Dr. Robertson said: "My only answer to Thompson for calling me a rat and his other vile and untruthful references is that for a period of eight years he lived most of the time at this rat's house and was willing and eager to gnaw at this rat's table...