Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Avenida de Mayo reading round by round results flashed on bulletin boards in front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade: a pudgy auto salesman named Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "wild bull of the Pampas," who has boasted he could whip Campolo with one hand. In Campolo's little hometown, Quilmes, the populace surrounded his home, wildly cheered his aged parents...
Evidently the Briton in the street had pricked up ears at "sponge cake," grinned approval at the project of ending John Bull's "henpecked husbandhood." The most amazing tribute came from Quebec, where famed Conservative Winston Churchill, immediate predecessor of Chancellor Snowden at the Exchequer, was lecture-touring last week. Said he warmly: "I think Snowden is opposing the Young Plan not on personal or party grounds but solely as an Englishman who wants fair play...
Lady Drummond Hay, in knickers and leather flying coat, "clambered squirrel-like" (Von Wiegand description) along the girders of the ship's hull. She carried a Boston Bull pup, who was cold and, she decided, lonesome. Sir Hubert Wilkins clambered with her. Her cloth cat mascot remained in her cabin...
...bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they must be caught and securely tied in the bottom of the boat before the cygnets can be nicked. To a Swanherd a male swan is not a cock swan, or a drake swan, or even a bull swan: he is a "cob." The female is a "pen." Swift examination shows which is the cob, which the pen. Then the Swanmasters, with pecked fingers (and sometimes with pecked noses) divide the young. If a royal cob should be found married to a Dyers' pen, for example, half...
...People say that the bull market of the last four years has caused an over valuation of all stocks. I don't think this is true. It was true in 1922 when industry was overinventoried. But in the closely knit organization of business today stock prices can't far overrun their real demonstrable value...