Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wozzeck, Büchner worked all his tense, young pity for the downtrodden. Wozzeck is a poor bewildered soldier, stationed in a small German city in peacetime. His captain bullies him, a crackbrain doctor experiments on him, his mistress philanders with the drum-major, who has chest like a bull and a beard like a lion." Twenty-six terse, stark scenes tell the tragedy. Wozzeck stabs his mistress, drowns himself. At the end, while the news is gibbered through the streets, their child rides about on his hobbyhorse...
...priests have been accused of violating their sacred vows," once reached the late Lord Curzon in garbled form. For a moment his eye rested upon the words "sacred cows." Without a smile, he drew out his sharp-pointed pencil and annotated the message: "Clearly a case for a Papal bull...
...stronger countries. The revolutionary movement sweeping through his country influenced him to start an independent school. Resulting from this turning point are his series of the Disasters of War, Caprices, and Proverbs, all of which are well represented in the Fogg Museum display. Another series is that of the Bull-fight drawings, which show well his tendency towards movement rather than form. It is this character that shows him as the originator, along with his countryman, El Greco, of the modern expressionistic...
...White House, Maine's lame-duck Senator Gould conducted a party of French-Canadian hunters who presented the President with moose meat. A visitor lifted a birchbark horn to his lips and said: "Now, Mr. President, we'll show you how we call the moose." No Bull Mooser, Mr. Hoover exclaimed: "No, no, please don't! I'd just as soon look at those horns if it's all the same...
Into the parade last week went a southern bull whose only weapon is his bellow. He was Col. Louis Alexander May of Birmingham, great admirer of Gulf States Steel...