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...alarmed Mohandas K. Gandhi offered advice to the women which, for a vegetarian, seemed surprising: the only way they could avoid dishonor, he said, was to bite their tongues or hold their breath until they died.* If that would not work, he snapped, let them take poison. He was feeling crotchety, anyway, and "thoroughly ashamed" of an error he had made in a letter, calling the Moslem League "the authoritative representative" (of an overwhelming majority of Indian Moslems), instead of "the most authoritative representative." Peevishly, he muttered that a man who made such mistakes probably would not live...
...Tenth Bite. In Travancore, India, a villager, bitten nine times by a hooded cobra, bit the snake to death, recovered...
...always been deeply interested in the farm problem (he has championed farmers by praising their coops and, more recently, by fighting for decontrol of farm products), got only a taste of making farm implements with his New Idea, Inc. Now he wants a bigger bite. One guess is that Emanuel will soon move deeper into the farm-implement field, may buy up another company. After that, even Emanuel is not quite sure where he is going...
...like a man . . . who had been skinned alive. . . . The slightest contact with friendly, well-meaning people got him on the raw to such an extent that he wanted to bite, as a dog that has been run over will bite in its agony any would-be friend. . . . The weaker his position, the more arrogant he became. Very well, let the British help him. They needed him as much as or more than he needed them. But let there be no pretense of friendliness or sentiment about it. The Prime Minister and General Spears were using him, he would use them...
...last week there were 40 strikes going on in New York City. One of them had New Yorkers jittery; it threatened to take a major bite out of their food supplies and to cut off their newspapers, cigarets, soap, candy bars and hundreds of the items they purchase daily over store counters. Unless it ended soon, it would throw hundreds of thousands out of jobs...