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Beware the Bankerwock, my son! The teeth that bite, the claws that snatch! Beware the Broker bird and shun The fumious Stockexsnatch...
...Beverley Minster. But I am beginning to find it even more difficult to believe in the debenture-holders who inspired the creators of the Black Country slag-heaps and the Durham 'tips'. ... I cannot help feeling that this new England is lacking in character, in zest, gusto, flavour, bite, drive, originality, and that this is a serious weakness. . . . We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Anybody who imagines that this is a time for self-congratulation has never poked his nose outside Westminster, the City and Fleet Street. ... We have led the world, many a time before today...
...West's little-noticed satire, Miss Lonelyhearts* will expect something pretty funny as the upshot of this medley and they will not be disappointed. A Cool Million, of the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is really a U. S.-imitation Candide. Though Author West's satire lacks the bite of Voltaire's, it is sharp enough to take the hide off more than one victim...
...Deal's accomplishments and aims: "Mr. Roosevelt did a lot of reforestation in our governmental landscape; many were tending the new saplings; but it was nobody's business to look at the woods." The crash of 1929 and the depression had a loud bark but no real bite, says Author Soule. "It is clear that we are not now in the critical period of revolution. What the depression of the thirties gave us was an excellent foretaste, however, of the aspect that crisis will assume if it does come. . . . [The President and his advisers] handed the system back...
Foraging ants found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...