Word: cobbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monroe Sunday dinner menu consists of roast lamb, creamed potatoe's, corn on the cob, cake, orange sauce, tea, coffee, milk or buttermilk?all served for the sum of 13�. The refugees are quartered in regulation army tents...
...still the international cob-web's trembling, Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany assumed the role of peaceable mediator, intimated that Germany would proffer her good offices between Russia and Rumania in the Bessarabia dispute. He vigorously scouted the "British Bloc" story as follows: "The British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain has never intimated to me a desire to build up a bloc of European nations against Russia, but has, on the contrary, categorically denied to me any such intentions...
...politics . . . most men and women," said Professor W. B. Munro in a recent article, "inherit their party affiliations.' Nor, it must be granted, does this hold in politics alone. Even the enlightened twentieth century, relegating to the cob-webs of antiquity this year what was the latest fashion the year before, does much as its fathers have done...
...Summerall. Before them marched 1,600 citizen soldiers. Then Mr. Coolidge proceeded to inspect the camp in general and the mess hall in particular. The mess sergeant gave him the day's menu: fresh fruit, ham and eggs, roast beef, baked potatoes, string beans, corn on the cob, raisin bread, ice cream. The President pondered, smiled, said: "Well, they can't famish on that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal...
...none of these. The horse that swept under the barrier as smoothly as a cob out for its morning canter, five lengths ahead of Lancegay, which ran second, was a horse owned by James Buchanan† (now Lord Woolavington), who sat alone with his cigar at Berkeley Square. It was a horse upon which Robert Bishop,** insurance clerk, held the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweepstakes worth $600,000.‡ It was a horse for which King George of England politely rose to cheer. It was Coronach...