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...applying himself to the business in hand and bringing forth a thoroughly sound and common sense conclusion. The late Senator Ollie James of Kentucky once compared him to a snapping turtle. "He looks harmless, but just prod him once and see how quick he'll bite...
...from ground squirrels in Tulare County, Calif. In 1920, Dr. Edward Francis of the Public Health Service discovered that jack rabbits in the states around Great Salt Lake were infected with this disease, and that the human disease known as deer-fly fever was transmitted to man by the bite of a blood-sucking fly, which had been infected previously by biting the diseased jack rabbit...
...rabbits brought home by her son five days before her illness. These she had prepared for cooking. This is the first case reported in which the disease was contracted by the handling of infected rabbits for cooking. The other forms of infection thus far reported have been by the bite of a blood-sucking fly and by accidental infection in the laboratory...
During the Parliamentary recess, ex-Premier David Lloyd George . found time to scurry back to Wales and, inhaling there his native air he became frisky, allowed his political tail to wag him and demonstrated, as he has often done before, that his bark is worse than his bite...
Wild Oranges. This screen version of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel carries out with simple but concrete symbolism the very quality of wild oranges-bitter sweet to the first taste, growing more zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing...