Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absorbed food. The cathartic enters and stimulates peristalsis, the evacuating motion of the intestines. There circular muscles contract progressively, and at the same time there is a wavelike motion forward. This activity may be seen in certain very thin persons. It resembles greatly the finger movements in milking a cow's teats. In intestinal obstruction such cathartic-induced peristalsis pounds the blockade, causing terrific distress and often death. Appendicitis is another situation where cathartics may not be used without discretion. Here the appendix has become infected and the human corporation tries to occlude the spread of germs by forming adhesions...
Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened to the cow...
...hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...
...file and with file and drum marched dinfully to the tune of "Deep River". Various campus police accompanied them on horseback with loaded black jacks. The whole affair was, to be mild, the most humorous thing which has transpired in good old Ipswitch since the time that the faculty cow called on the president. Indeed, such evidences of virility and originality lead us to believe that Ipswitch need be proud of those sons of hers who by virtue of wit and funniness have made the Piffle...
...killing parents and capturing the young, the following among other denizens of the African continent are to be secured for inspection by the U. S. public and its children: lions and pygmy mice (bumblebee size); black rhinoceroses and hyraxes; giraffes; eland (the Zoo has but one aged cow); sable and pygmy antelope, fringe-eared oryx, topi, hartebeest, bushbuck, kudu, reedbuck, duiker, impalla and. oribi; colobus and Sykes monkeys; leopards, hunting dogs; wild hogs; aardvark and aardwolves, hyenas, caracals, servals, civet cats; the giant python, spitting cobras, puff adders, black mambas, boomslangs (tree snakes); parrots, love birds, giant ground hornbills, fish...