Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...
Like a spry cock sparrow followed by two plump robins there hopped off the steamer Avelona, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, David Lloyd George, followed by his wife Dame Margaret, and their daughter Megan...
...picks, opener, knives, spoons; a cedar drawer for 500 cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker Bar-ette"-is usually made with a red-lacquer finish. Some are equipped with the heads & tails of animals (cock, horse, dog) sticking out at either end, to support the leaves which, when folded, cover the box, and, when unfolded, serve as a depository for used glasses...
...with poise, eating neatly ?is "theatrical" if self-consciousness enters the process. It is an ingenious thesis, cleverly spun. And, not surprisingly, it is spun too far. Biologists and psychologists, after learning that "theatricalness" is a peculiarly human attribute, will be puzzled to hear that the strutting of cock birds, the romping of dogs and even the protective coloration of plants, are not functions of the instincts of sex, combat, self-preservation, etc. but are, according to theatrical M. Evreinov, expressions of a hitherto unnoticed "theatre" instinct, deepest...
...down on their back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...