Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoons, a poet says, have been in Montana, and few of them hotter than July 4, 1923. That day, the sun poured down without mercy on the little cow town of Shelby, where, in a damp prizefight ring, glistened and heaved the ruddy shoulders of Tommy Gibbons, a husky boy who wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after...
...Hoover was tempted to tell his favorite story, about a cow in China during the Boxer Rebellion. This cow belonged to the Hoovers and they cherished her because good rich milk WAS rare then and there. Some predatory Germans took the cow. Forth-went the Hoovers leading their cow's small calf through narrow streets, punching and-prodding it into a grief-stricken moo-oo-ooing. Mother cow, hidden behind walls, heard the call of her young and mooed back maternally. Out rushed the Germans?and took away the calf...
...netted the Millers a million dollars a year. Sideshows it had, and freaks, and many a Bearded Lady and Human Skeleton vacationed during the winter in elegant quarters on the Millers' luxurious ranch at Marland, Okla. But it was essentially a Wild West Show, with buffaloes and cattle, cow-men and cowgirls, pistols and scalping knives, and the sure-fire big scene of the Attack on the Stage Coach, with round-eyed, heart-pounding spectators writhing on the edges of pine-board seats...
...quote from your issue of Jan. 7, page 16: ''Two sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds are a cow." This might be continued: "Two cows are a salmon," which would make the approximate value of an Irish florin 48c and not $2.91 as you state. Greetings...
TIME'S description of the new Irish Free State currency must stand corrected, in the light of subsequent dispatches, on two points: 1) Subscriber Mellor is correct about the salmon; 2) The "cow"' is a bull...