Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a Patent Office report, women, during the past ten years, have invented 1,400 different "new and useful articles" ranging from a rotary plow share to an eggbeater. Among the articles are included a cow tail holder, a reinforced wooden bowl for beating eggs in and an artificial eyelash. The variety shows that women's activities in America are spreading out and cover every field of occupation and endeavor. "Children, church and kitchen" are no longer what they used to be. Eventually, perhaps, some clever woman will invent a satisfactory substitute for all three...
Even as when a cow eats a cocoanut or an elephant does a high dive, it is an event when a ball player writes a book. There are those, to be sure, who view with unworthy suspicion professional athletes in the world of literature. And it is even whispered that a certain prominent heavyweight and an equally prominent golf champion do not actually compose the treatises attributed to them in the public prints. But be these things as they very well may, Everett ("Deacon") Scott, of the New York Yankees, has entered the field of literature with a novel entitled...
...Before you I stand, a student, starving while attending school. Hunger forced me to pick from garbage cans hends of herring. Not satisfied, I ate hay which I stole from a cow. This produced terrible head aches. Next I chewed small pieces of paper to satiate the gnawing pangs of Hunger. My stomach and teeth ached, and the muscles of my jaw grew tired...
...term bills of students at Harvard College in Cambridge were for years met by the payment to the bursar of produce, live-stock, meat and occasionally "with various articles raked from the closets of undergraduate debtors." One man, later president of the college, settled his bill with an old cow, -- whose merits and value proved cause for a spirited dispute. The accounts of the fund for the first college building include the entry: "Received a goat, 30s, plantation of Watertown rate, which died...
...shows a change in the state of mind of the employer towards the employee. Instead of regarding him as a commodity which he can use at will, or as a machine capable of doing a certain amount of work, he is beginning to realize that his assistant, like the cow in the famous story, "looks like a man, acts like a man, and in fact is a man". When a person is made to don a uniform and conceal his ego behind figures printed on a tin disc, he cannot help but lose some of his self-respect, and feel...