Word: bitefuls
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...remembers her husband, the late King Constantine of Greece, he who guessed wrong in siding with his brother-in-law, Wilhelm II, during the War. No one would remember her second and favorite son, King Alexander of Greece, had he not died sensationally of a monkey bite. Today her eldest son, the deposed King George II of Greece, is a charming though impecunious guest at the Rumanian and British Courts, being especially favored by his royal & imperial second cousin once removed, George...
...Nebraska, and affixes himself to the train without further parley. Mr. Fiske has, like much of the existing world, written a book. The book's title is "Voices of Gold". With the pride of a father in his first-born, and a pardonable wish to instill variety, or even bite, into the Sunday evening service, he has recently filled in the space between the offering and the third hymn with readings from his book...
Prohibitionists were delighted, anti's were disgusted, last week, to learn that a poisonous snake bite should not be followed by a powerful alcoholic drink. Dr. Afrania do Amaral, director of the snake serum institute at Butantan, Brazil, declared that far from being a remedy ". . . alcoholic liquors are harmful to persons bitten by venomous snakes." The alcohol acts first as a stimulant, speeding up the circulation, quickly distributing the poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight...
Faith in alcohol is based on ignorance of snakes. Many snakes that bite are not poisonous, the majority of poisonous bites are not fatal. The victim drowns his despair in drink. When, on growing sober, he finds himself still alive the alcohol gets the credit...
...Putnam apparently did not see this aspect of the college situation at all: she was interested in directly stimulating attention to studies. But she has done better than she know. She has strengthened a professional bugabear until it is threatening to bite the professors. Come to think of it, a public review of what is being taught in the classrooms seem an eminently healthful development...