Word: cobbed
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Sailing for Scotland on his annual grouse-shooting junket, cob-nosed John Pierpont Morgan groused: "If they start war, certainly my shooting will be interrupted, because everybody would rush off to do what they'd have to do and I wouldn't have anybody with me." Also sailing was the President's mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt. To the question of the hour she replied: "I don't know. I suppose so. But if it does come I'll live through...
...easily under the crafty hand of Irish Tim Hyde, a veteran of many years of chasing, a gentleman jockey turned pro. He was following the plan the illustrious George Stevens used to bring in his record five winners, before he was tossed to ignominious death in 1871 by a cob he was riding home over a rocky byroad. Stevens used to hang back until most of the field had harried each other into the ditches and hedges, then he would ride triumphantly in over the carnage. Wily Tim Hyde guided Workman that way until Becher's and the Canal...
...punch-drunk. She couldn't seem to select the rest of the meal. Every moment that she hesitated the nephew knew that she was losing ground. But what to do about it? Finally the elder struck out in desperation: "I haven't had any corn on the cob for some time. How would what go with clams...
...Curtis doesn't do much to redeem the triteness of this theme. And when Mr. Cagney turns out to have a heart of gold the picture degenerates into another blurb about the nobility of gangsters. "Down on the Farm," a Jones Family feature which concerns corn, both of the cob and jug variety, is naive but rather amusing...
...group of about 350 first class men listened to the three addresses as they smoked corn cob pipes in what corresponds, but only a very little, with the famed Freshman Smoker. Afterwards beer was served in an informal got-to-gather with faculty and student leaders...