Word: barke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a meeting of the American Veterinary Association at Portland, Ore., stood a dog. Angered by the faces that festooned the air about him, the dog tried to bark, failed, tried again- and again only the dismal spectre of a bark issued from his inflamed throat. He laid his head down on his paws. Two sad-eyed goats stood nearby. For these goats had lost their happy bleats; they would converse no more. A veterinary surgeon, one Dr. F. R. Whipple, explained to the faces how simple it had been to remove the bark, the two bleats -as simple...
...drivel-lines that biteless bark, and choose...
...small dog Spitz has given a shrill bark...
Starlight. Nothing is more tempting to most actresses than to vibrate in the role of a celebrated actress, perfumed with a past. Nothing is more likely to bark the temperamental shins. Actresses' lives are admittedly artificial. To paint them up additionally with wire-strung acting is to paint the lily. So, when Doris Keane, in Gladys Unger's play, essayed a role faintly redolent of Bernhardt, she invited the lightning...
...lives in exile, that Russia is in the grip of that apocalyptic horseman, Famine. Said he: "It is not to be wondered at that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come. The Bolshevist policy has closed the door to it. They will know this in the Russian countryside...