Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last fortnight Ashgrove's two-acre turkey field lay calm and ordered, with some 1,000 turkeys roosting on bark-limbed perches or in their big, immaculately whitewashed house. Next morning the field was a shambles of blood, feathers, mangled turkeys and broken glass. At first attendants thought there must be 300 turkeys lying with tooth-marked backs and broken necks. A count cut their estimate to 153. No one had seen the marauders, but it took no Pinkerton man to deduce their identity. Mongrel German police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been...
...little cubicle on the third floor of Washington's new colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough. You'd better change your tune. Good...
...garden of the Palais-Royal: a cannon rigged with an adjustable burning glass over the touchhole to go off just at noon each sunny day. From 1786 to August 1914, when it was silenced by General Joseph Gallieni lest it frighten war-worried Parisians, the meridian gun barked on. Fortnight ago Minister of Education Anatole de Monzie decided Louis' idea was still a good one. Reconditioned, the meridian gun will bark noon again in the Palais-Royal garden. But since Paris is on daylight saving time, it will now only bark...
...hundreds of other students and guests looked on from the sidelines and from surrounding dormitory windows. Out among the juniors would pass 60 grave-faced seniors, one at a time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club) chose members. A distinctly grim overtone accompanied the proceedings-the chagrin and bitterness of men who hoped they would be wanted and were...
...only qualifications for entrance in the Mutt Show were four legs and a bark. Aristocratic lineage won purebreds no favors. The American Legion (sponsors) saw to that by choosing as judges three men utterly ignorant of dogs. No expert could have deciphered the scrambled strains in a waggling pup named Peanuts, and no expertness was needed to tell that he deserved a prize for being "cute...