Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hurling a shower of large mangel-wurzels (cow beets) on the stage, the students cried: "This is an insult to economic distress in Croatia!" "Long live Croatian culture!" "Down with such vulgarity...
...from $16,000,000. The new figure hardly reflects its earning capacity, which is probably from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 per year. But the U. S. Government collects income tax on no such earnings, for the unpurchasable Times is not operated as a dividend milk cow. The formula of its success, the secret of its prestige, is its policy of accepting only the best, and paying...
Quoth Arkansas' quipsome Caraway: "Those men don't know a horse from a cow...
...lived in Paris for 20 years, writing, experimenting, playing hostess to scores of queer artistic folk who, with herself, have made her salon famed. Among her books are Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, A Birthday Book, As a Wife Has a Cow, Tender Buttons. Her letter head carries a figure like a fleur de Us and underneath "It's a rose, it's a rose, it's a rose." A large rose gob is her seal. She is a sister of Leo Stein, famed art critic, with whom she is not on speaking...
Marda wanted to explore-and incidentally to escape Montmorency; she and Lois ventured into the gloom, relishing a fear that was "a kind of deliciousness." A crop of nettles, a dead cow, and by the stairs a prostrate lump that was a man. Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that...