Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rang a bell to signify that the second Reichstag of the German Republic was in session for the first time. The Communists evidently felt that this was a signal for celebration, for they broke into a series of discordant yells and ear-splitting howls, which they mellowed by clanking cow bells and blowing whistles. The remaining members of the Reichstag did not help matters by hissing and roaring long and loud, "Throw them out." Neither did Herr Bock diminish the noise one iota by waving his private bell and squeaking "Order! Order!" Finally, everyone had to stop to draw breath...
...Secretary General of the Government Pawnshop System decided that unpublished manuscripts could be "hocked" but not cows. A farmer at Boulogne was thereby sadly disappointed. Said the Secretary General: "Cows are not acceptable because they come under the title of perishable goods. A cow is liable to die in the sad surroundings of a pawnshop, thus making it impossible for the Government to get its money if the pawner does not repay the loan or redeem the pledge if requested. I think there would be a legal tangle if a cow became a mother during her sojourn in a pawnshop...
Died. Groff's Constance, world's champion Jersey cow, owned by one Ulysses G. Groff; of milk fever contracted in calving, at South Amherst, Mass...
...that another singer in our own particular line equals, if indeed he does not surpass us!" This apropos of someone else's jealousy. Her own comments on her own rivals run like this: "The lady was very fat, with what was described as the vocal agility of a cow...
...were Englishmen, although the rumor once persisted that Harvard oarsmen likewise delighted in an afternoon cup. The origin of the English love for tea is said to have been associated with the enclosure of the commons. With the loss of common rights went the ability to keep a family cow; and when milk was denied him the Englishman turned to tea. Be that as it may; the addition to tea does seem the distinguishing mark of the Englishman, just as the red strand once identified all the cordage of the Royal Navy...