Word: barks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other appointments by President Hoover last week caused the Senate to bark, if not bite. Because he had named Albert L. Watson a U. S. District Judge in Pennsylvania, President Hoover was charged with heeding the demands of William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania R. R. president, Pennsylvania's Republican National Committeeman, rather than his own Attorney-General, and of treating the G. O. P. North, better than the G. O. P., South. Likewise abuse was heaped upon the President's appointment of Richard Joseph Hopkins as a U. S. Judge in Kansas, charged with accepting speaking fees from...
General Crack (Warner). A fairly successful effort has been made to bring speed and glitter to this costume romance. It has all been expertly tailored for John Barrymore's profile, for his bark, his meditative scowl, his glance of an amorous lion, his strides in high, patent-leather boots. On a white charger he leads his mercenaries into battle and pushes back with long, stiffened fingers the cloaks attached to various 18th Century uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because...
...Bark, an aged black gelding, won the international individual championship for military jumpers. Tan Bark committed six and one-half faults but won because Lieut. Francesco Formigli and his Italian Army mount got messed up on a stone wall and the triple bars...
...club's purpose is to insure happier tail-wagging in all U. S. dog-homes. Careful records are kept of all dog-members, including peculiarities (such as a hoarse bark, a missing eye, discolored teeth). A number-tag is attached to each member's collar and when he strays the finder telephones or telegraphs the Tail-Waggers who notify the owner if and when the lost is found. Other advantages are free medical advice, six months' subscription to The Tail Wagger, official organ of the Tail Waggers' Club. The fee is $1 a year. Dogs have...
...coincidence, the third column on that same page carries the picture of the employer of a man who does state that he has seen whales under just such conditions. On the estate of Col. Green at South Dartmouth, Mass., is moored, perpetually in a concrete basin, the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan, said to be the last of the old New Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been lost during the filming of Down to the Sea in Ships. The Charles W. Morgan has been, through the interest of Col. Green and others, made into a whaling...