Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moore. The fatal spot is a color-film of a fashion show--perhaps very gratifying to those who like fash ions, but hard on those who think well of their eyes. De gustibus non disputandum est, which means that some people have heard about the lady who kissed the cow. Miss Moore as the mischievous and often penitent Irene starts as a poor but Irish heroine and frolics through to the arms of her handsome millionaire lover. She has her troubles and her tears, but they are happy troubles, like roller-skating home from naughty men in wicked cabarets...
...capitalization was $1,500,000, strong competition for the only three other banks then existing in Manhattan. Its first building was the three-story, onetime home of Alexander Hamilton. Customers approached the counting room over a front lawn, on which thrifty first President John Slidell kept tethered his family cow. He slept in a room above the vault as a deterrent to marauders...
...objects are not segregated in race divisions but hung together in a harmonious whole to carry out "the idea of international sympathy." There were studies of a cow, a cat, a goose, and a donkey by Jeanne Poupelet; compositions by such Frenchmen as Derain, Andre, Rouault, Aristide Maillol; by Augustus John and Jacob Epstein; by George Luks, Jo Davidson, Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward...
...then that Mrs. O'Leary's cow abdicated. For rumor has whispered to the London Chronicle that the President booted the lantern. He said to the smiling Phoenix. "And how is my friend Clemenceau?" The Phoenix blanched, almost returned to ashes, remembering how the Tiger had quenched him in the exile from which he has lately risen...
Among the list of witnesses in the records of the case appear the names of several Indians who took part in the arguments. "The Cow's Rib," "He Who Puts His Foot in it," "He Who Has to fall," and "Ged Almighty" were only a few of the names which appear, followed by "his mark...