Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American. He is apt to receive reporters in his underwear, reading a mystery novel. At various times he has played a ukulele, guitar, saxophone. The golf-bug has bitten him. Nothing is more fun for him than to roar out a lusty song (favorite: My Name Is Jon Jonson, I Come From Wisconsin), especially at formal dinners. At parties he sits on the floor if he can. When he drinks, it is not much; when he smokes, it is a Hatamen cigaret-cheap brand the coolies...
...political leader of the Leningrad district, was hipped on the subject of the defense of the Soviet Union's second largest city and managed to get Dictator Stalin alarmed too. In any case, whatever the causes or reasons, the U.S.S.R.'s grotesque impersonation of a bear being bitten by, a rabbit did the U.S.S.R.'s waning prestige and corroding ideals no worldwide good...
...been bombed by any Germans yet, but are waging relentless warfare against Air Raid Wardens, who come round at all hours of the night banging on the door and shouting that they can see a crack of light through one of our windows. The dog has gallantly bitten two of them, but they have retaliated by reporting him to the police. We are thinking of resorting to stink bombs! We have five people living with us, and are getting our family life organized on a communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen to the occasion...
...Hollywood he got himself a job as an assistant rector, rented two rooms at Selznick International Studios and hung out a sign reading: Cathedral Films. Author Dana Burnet supplied a script with plenty of entertainment value and with preaching carefully soft-pedaled. Once Friedrich met hard-bitten James Thompson Coyle, veteran Hollywood Jack-of-all-trades, and sold him on the idea that a religious picture could make money, Cathedral Films was ready to produce The Great Commandment in 17 days with a budget...
...waiting to see which ones would click. Most of these musical munitions were rousing, morale-boosting ditties (The Handsome Territorial, The Girl Who Loves a Soldier, We Must All Stick Together, Here We Go Again, etc.) hip-hip-hooraying the soldier's life. Others (Adolf, You've Bitten Off More Than You Can Chew, by Annette Mills, writer of Boomps-a-Daisy, and The Man Who Looks Like Charlie Chaplin) poked ridicule at the enemy. Two songs with different tunes and publishers but similar words (I'm Sending You the Siegfried Line To Hang Your Washing...