Word: bitingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...requisite qualifications for the duties of the office he seeks. A man not only utterly forgetful and at all times oblivious of the rungs in the ladder by which he has climbed, but also disposed to discredit and destroy the indespensable instrumentalities by which he has progressed- to bite the very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense of fairness common to and inherent in minds of splendid judicial poise is obtuse in him, and cannot therefore point...
...WITH THEIR HEADS!?Peggy Bacon?McBride ($3). Though Peggy Bacon is little known to the U. S. at large, Manhattan intelligentsiacs have for years oh-ed and ahed in front of her malicious black-&-white portraits. Like all good caricaturists, her bite is worse than her bark. This collection of 39 caricatures of prominent U. S. figures shows Artist Bacon at her best, her victims at their worst. A literate craftswoman (she versifies with skill), Artist Bacon supplements her sketches with verbal notes, sometimes as acidly to the point as the finished drawing. Some of them...
...Single Standard. Philip Frampton (William Harrigan) has been away from home three months. During that time he has written his wife Josie (Violet Heming) one letter. That letter grew to such proportions that he sent it not to Josie but to the American Mercury. Meantime Josie has received a bite from what Sherwood Anderson calls "the writing bug" and has turned out a salacious best-seller called A Naked Woman. The book is a case history of a wife who knows how to amuse herself with other men when her husband is out of town. When he learns...
...Bite...
...BUSHMASTER, end with DITMARS BACK; NO BUSHMASTER. It was, therefore, a metropolitan milestone last week when word flashed from the Caribbean that the 25-year search of Dr. Raymond Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's famed reptile man. was over at last. His bushmaster, a great snake whose bite is the deadliest in the American tropics, had been caught by a white laborer on a Trinidad cocoa plantation. Half the length to which a bushmaster may grow (12 ft.), it behaved characteristically by refusing to eat. But it drank copiously, gave every indication of a willingness to bite...