Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the characterizations can be described by no other word than "immense" in its slangiest sense. Andrew Jackson, rest his democratic soul, is an "old turkey cock, on a forest rock" and later on "his face was a talon, his hands were talons." You do not need to collect postage stamps to know that Andrew Jackson did look like that. Jezebel puts on her various guards and jewels and "stopped the honest prophets as they marched upon their...
...country; he is incapable of seeing things whole. The historian who has undertaken to project his imagination into other times, to comprehend other customs and motives, is the more likely to achieve a similar vantage point in surveying the modern world. It is only the educated man who can cock an historical eye at his own times and the man who can do this is surely educated...
...best man in Port Royal and in much demand at weddings. He was a most successful gambler, for he had a way with the dice and cards as well as with women. And if he was no end of trouble to his captain, he was none the less cock of the walk in the Negro quarter...
...point of view of those I have asked, and I do not claim to be different from the rest. Nobody cares about the players having fun; it would be well for them to bear that in mind. What we want is that they play for our fun. Football is cock fighting on a grand scale. Whether the birds enjoy the sport they have not yet told us. For these reasons George Owen's point of view will not awaken a general interest beyond an academic...
...melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player south of Panama...