Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into that blooming, perfect body the wicked vaccine virus, poisonous pus that comes from the sore of a diseased cow. And it did its deadly work. The poison spread through her system and the roses faded from her cheeks. She became a pallid, sickly thing, grew rapidly weaker and weaker-and died. The authorities said she died of pneumonia, but I knew better. . . . And as I looked upon the shrouded waxlike...
...Mineola, N. Y., at a "freak animal show," Jack Johnson, "monkey-faced mule," kicked Rosie, cow, in the throat. Rosie was a freak because her heart was located in her throat, its pulsations plainly visible. Kicked in the heart, she died...
After all, the seven o'clock nuisance is only a relic of the Middle Ages--a reminder of the bright days when lads and maidens frolicked gaily out to the cow pasture several hours before dawn and had to be safely tucked away by the time the our few tolled--which happened to be several hours before it is considered correct to present one's self at any properly regulated dance. Those sensitive souls who have failed to become immune to the bell, curse its insistent clamor as heartily as the bell-man, doomed to incommode not only himself...
...five minutes both cows were reported "clean." The victory was awarded to Secretary Wallace because he had drawn a pint more of milk. Senator Johnson, the challenger, protested the decision on the ground that Cora Johanna Frenesta Dekol, his cow, had been milked too recently. The quantities of milk were not given...
Recently the Times has printed comparatively little about horrors and indecencies of Lenin and Leninism. It did, however, carry a despatch last week which stated that Isvestia (Mos- cow journal) stated...