Word: morsel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country on New Year's Day. A request to the press that adverse opinion should not be openly expressed, lest observers from other nations should form the erroneous opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...
...more often it lies submerged in a water-hole, with only the eyes above water. It strikes dead with a hammering head blow or seizes its prey in its jaws: secures the carcass in a coil of its body; constricts, crushing the carcass to a pulp; swallows the morsel...
What is the U. S. to do with its treasury surplus of $300,000,000?, This question, obviously a matter for experts, has now become a morsel for politicians. Congress, either by action or inaction, at its winter session will probably decide the problem. Several schemes loom...
...which so often decorate the newspapers, the fact that this particular affair is directly attributable to the church will certainly cause much comment from the ranks of the unbelievors Always waiting to take advantage of any slip made by their arch-enemy, they will never let such a juicy morsel as this slip through their fingers. Pointing to this as an example of the too often misdirected energies of the church, they will as usual cry with alarm at the very thought of the church holding a large amount of influence in its hands, and will warn all to sever...
...Bordeaux, in a rue Ste. Catherine charcuterie (delicatessen), one Desirée Dumas sliced bologna. Her store cat watched harpy-like, leaped at a falling morsel, seized it, rushed outside, scuttled under the house. Mile. Dumas had sliced off her finger...