Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White-haired Captain George Black, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, looked out of his office window on Parliament Hill and saw some rabbits gnawing the tender bark of young evergreens recently planted. Captain Black is a man of action. He went into the Yukon in the gold rush of 1898, led a company of sourdoughs to France in the War, has represented the north country in the House since 1921. His constituency embraces 207,000 sq. mi., has 4,000 residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under...
...from Manhasset, L. I. one dark evening last fortnight put a small, dark craft called Tar Baby. Aboard were a banker, a broker, an aviator. Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later the Tar Baby crept toward Goose Island, the Sound's favorite seal haunt. But the weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their...
...small, rheumatic terrier was in the house but did not bark while the child was being taken. There was no watchman, since Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh had never remained more than a week-end in their white, Colonial, $50,000 house since it was built, spending most of their non-flying time at the Morrow home in Englewood. There was a floodlight system on the grounds but it was not in use. These facts led some guessers to imagine that the person or persons who took the child knew that the Lindberghs were going to stay longer than their usual weekend...
...small boy would resent it if he were told that his little yellow dog was no dog at all just because its ears were too short, its tail too long, its bark absurd. In Manhattan last week the same sort of loyalty seized May Singhi Breen who for eight years has earned her living thrumming a ukulele for the radio,* improvising ukulele accompaniments for sheet music...
...made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure, not yours.'' He made the same servant drink a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port & brandy; made him crawl on the floor like a dog, bark, eat out of a saucer...