Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour and a half, his audience walked out on him. He continued his ravings for nearly an hour before collapsing. That one evening's illness killed his chances for the nomination that T. R. later decided to take. It so embittered him that he never joined the Bull Moose movement...
...campaign room, a dozen precinct captains swarm around the phone. Each wears a round badge, patriotically decorated in red, white, and blue, also with green, yellow, and purple, thrown in to make it attractive. An enormously fat bull-dog with a hide that was once white, rolls on the floor in the havoc of cigar-butts, torn posters, and dirt. He slouches away from one of the campaign managers. He upsets the spittoon. "Jesus, Curley, watch it!" one of the cigar-chewers admonishes...
Secondly, Mr. Chase writes an attack on science and a defense of humanism. This portion of his article will provide abundant material for what in simpler circles than those of Harvard undergraduates are called "bull sessions." "For after all," he writes, "facts, especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point...
When Dr. Frank Baskerville Bull of Gardiner, Me. went to Boston last week to attend the convention of the American College of Surgeons, he prudently put a pocketbook containing $28 in one hip pocket, another pocketbook containing $8 in the other hip pocket. When in due course a Boston holdup man accosted Dr. Bull in a restaurant. Dr. Bull, flustered, handed over the $28 pocketbook...
Besides the wisdom which the holdup taught him, Dr. Bull picked up a profitable amount of information from fellow surgeons. Some...