Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his customary bull-in-china-shop finesse Mr. Dies managed to kick the chairman of the Republican National Committee, redheaded John Hamilton, out of the subversive bag. Mr. Hamilton, it seems, had been in correspondence with Facist Campbell to the extent of sending him a copy of the Republican National Committee list when he asked for it. Another potent Republican was revealed to be Mr. Campbell's correspondent. Chairman Dies introduced a letter from paunchy, cigar-smoking Banker Felix McWhirter, treasurer of the Indiana Republican State Committee, who asked Mr. Campbell if any of three persons were...
...happened to the University of California's famed Lick Observatory, first of the big mountain-top star-stations, perched on triple-peaked, 4,209-ft. Mt. Hamilton. An army attack plane, flying on instruments through fog, hit the main observatory building like a rifle bullet aimed at a bull...
Fortnight ago their quarrel burst like a boil: Elaine quit the show in a spuming huff. A few days later, performing before Omaha's highbusted Drama League, John was royally pickled. Up & down traveled his voice, to a bull-like bellow, to a bird-like whisper. Scandalized were Omaha's great ladies when he ad-libbed such lines as "Albert, you look like a pregnant string bean." Afterwards Barrymore's press-agent offered the excuse that he had been "very tired." Concurred the Drama League's lady president: "He must have been very, very, VERY tired...
Anyway Johnny Bull and Papa Daladier will hire(?) us but at what a price...
...Jones" did motor forth, however, without his usual police escort. He paused for a picnic lunch on Bull Run battlefield, was late for tea at his son's colonial cottage a mile from the University of Virginia campus. Faculty members assured him the boy's law study marks were satisfactory...