Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name of "Cow Pasture...
Once pastured free the presidential cow...
This basic substance of feminine sexuality is not the sole property of the human species, for Dr. Allen presented evidence demonstrating that exactly the same hormone is present in the hen, pig, sheep, cow and rat as well as woman. In fact, just as is the case in thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and other glandular products, it seems assured that the animal hormone will substitute completely for the natural secretion of the human gland...
...foolish they have made him appear on occasion, his feelings would be quite reversed. Evidently it doesn't embarrass him to kiss seven fat babies before the steady lens of the camera, but how must it embarrass the babies. Mr. Coolidge has been photographed with everything from a Jersey cow to a Blackfoot Indian. He is the greatest star of the news reel. But isn't it a bit undignified, even for a President...
...physical culture." Macfadden's Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which was outlawed by the British Parliament because of its effect upon public health."* The Graphic headlined: IS REPORT OF COOLIDGE'S VACCINATION PUBLICITY STUNT...