Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a bang, Publisher Gollancz gave charter members two books for the price of one as the Left Book Club's May issue. For their 2s.6d. (60?), the 5,000 initial subscribers received a timely study called France Today and the People's Front, by burly, bull-necked Maurice Thorez, secretary of the French Communist Party, and Out of the Night: A Biologist's View of the Future, by Texas University's famed Professor Hermann Joseph Muller. Five-feet-two with eyes of blue, wee Professor Muller has been experimenting in genetics at the Soviet Academy...
...cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over"). And she was not slow to compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch...
...tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon's bull; the Carolina mother's advice to her departing son: "Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue anybody for slander or assault & battery. Always settle them cases yourself...
Awarded. To Brooklyn Matador Sidney Franklin: a $7,000 judgment against Columbia Pictures Corp., whose cinema Throwing the Bull used his name in a "jeering, jocular and undignified manner'' (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934); by the New York State Court of Appeals, in Albany...
...vigorous and vivid style, that sometimes rises to heights of rhetoric and grotesque anathema, he has never been given his due rating, being regarded less as a good and aggressively sensible writer than as a sort of public entertainer with a sleeve-full of uproarious phrases. His bull-roaring denunciations have been returned with interest by many a patriot, professor, politician: he has been accused of slandering Abraham Lincoln, ruining the English language, taking money from the onetime Kaiser, spying for the Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German...