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...graduated the same year (1891) that affluent young "Nick" Longworth emerged from Harvard. A tall, bony Yank, he went to the Spanish War, returned to practice law, worked to the top of his Legislature, reached Congress in 1909. His face is lined like bark, but he does not bite. Conservative, shrewd, popular with serious men, he has cast a long shadow at national conventions...
Armand Tokatyan, tenor, bit Mario Basiola, baritone, on the ear, one evening last week. That was all right, for they were performing Cavalleria Rusticana at the Metropolitan Opera House and biting was in the stage directions. But Tenor Tokatyan bit the ear of Baritone Basiola so thoroughly that first-aid had to be performed at the end of the scene. Thereafter, Tenor Tokatyan explained that the unintended ferocity of his bite was caused by a nail which stuck up from his shoe into his foot...
...such lodging (though the hay was comfortable enough) we slept little, and had a good opportunity to observe the nocturnal habits of the six horses tied to the opposite side of the manger. For the first hour or two they munched noisily on hay. Tiring of this, they would bite each other on the neck in a friendly way, or would spray us violently through their nostrils. All the while they were lunging about restlessly against the walls and the manger (beneath which we lay), and stamping about as though to shake the flimsy structure to pieces...
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Typhus is one disease whose mode of transmission he discovered and whose way of prevention he invented. The germ breeds in the bodies of lice. One louse infects others. The community bite their human or animal host and into the bloody puncture slip the typhus organisms. Dr. Nicolle developed a vaccine from the blood of infected monkeys. Injected into humans it immunizes them. Its spreading use promises to wipe out typhus as a plague...