Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should make haste!" cried Finance Minister Ernst Trygger of Sweden. "If we do not soon lower the tariff walls that are stifling inter-European trade it will be too late. As our Swedish proverb well says, 'While the grass is growing the cow dies...
...Radio Cow...
...Manhattan one Nellie, a trick cow who moos soprano over the radio, was led through the streets on her way to rehearsal, caused a traffic...
Rape was the charge against Curley Wright, Negro, when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55, weak-minded widow. Her account of the attack was lurid. Her two granddaughters, posing as eyewitnesses, embellished the tale by telling how Wright had flourished pistols, one in each hand...
British mystics were deep in thought last week, wondering whether they had found a symbolism between an occurrence at Dorsetshire and the ancient story of the lion and the unicorn. The occurrence: In a fair field of turnips near Lyme Regis* grazed Nelly, a young mother cow. Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf. There in the field was a tawny, muscular black-maned lion...