Word: stings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Century dictionary I read as follows, "Gadfly. The popular name of sundry flies which goad or sting domestic animals. They are comparatively large, very active, voracious and bloodthirsty, with great powers of biting, the mouth parts being highly developed. They also have great powers of flight. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous. In strictness, only the females are gadflies, the males being smaller and quite inoffensive, living on the juices of plants. There are more than a thousand species...
...shoot on sight anyone attempting to enter a dormitory in other than the legal and recognized fashion. The idea instilled into these young and active scions of the law is not to aim at the offender's head or any damageable part of his anatomy, but attempt instead to sting him a little where it doesn't hurt so much...
...improbable. First, Mr. Woodlock, a Democrat, cannot be rejected unless all Democratic Senators, both North and South, leagued with all Insurgents, vote against him. Second, there is likely to be another vacancy in the nine-chaired table, to which Mr. Coolidge will appoint a Southerner, thus removing the sting from their objections...
...govern us in politics. Some of us on this side of the Chamber have been abetting and urging sabotage and apparently expecting the admiration and applause of the American people for the brilliancy of the performance. The people have neither applauded nor approved. We have incurred along with the sting of defeat the more bitter sting of contempt...
...some years a gadfly, H. L. Mencken by name, editor of the American Mercury, has buzzed and stung at the flanks of U. S. journalists. But Gadfly Mencken does not sting solely to infuriate. Gadfly Mencken is an idealist. He stings, he maddens, he browbeats only that working newspaper men may be awakened to the shame of their "cowardice, stupidity and Philistinism." Idealist Mencken has magnificent ideals for U. S. journalism...