Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great mogul's cotton and corn fields. Milk is an important ingredient in nonviolent, teetotal Saint Gandhi's politics, and 500 head of cattle were soon creating difficulties among the bamboo stalks, for it is almost impossible for a sincerely pious Hindu to be firm with the cow, a sacred animal. Finally bamboo cages were built in which the cows were gently confined. Meanwhile whips were cracking over bullocks as these nonsacred males helped drag bamboo and build Congress City...
...before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds singing the Nazi Horst Wessel song. To cow Graz, Dr. Schuschnigg promptly sent 16 tanks, army troops, 20 army bombers...
...theory that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over an oil lantern, thus starting the fire, seems to be of dubious historical accuracy. Nevertheless, Twentieth Century-Fox is privileged to rewrite history in the interests of drama, and drama it surely is which the film provides once the fateful lantern is upset. Streets are mobbed with frantic people; flames roar through the tightly-packed slums, ignite a gas tower, stampede the stock yards, and drive the whole South side into the Chicago River...
...city's low-paid teachers, who own little besides personal possessions. The resourceful teachers solved the problem, however, by hastening to declare the personal property that tax-dodging citizens ordinarily do not list. Blonde, comely Lee Ray Chandler listed her cello. Janitor C. C. Woodward declared his cow. Teacher H. P. Kuntz admitted his rifle. Others listed watches, rings, pins...
...made the world safe for Democracy. A reaction was only natural for so precocious a youth, and it came in a tendency toward manfully swapping glances with Theda Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts around their necks and liked our alcohol distilled from hair tonic or drained from Sterno. Our few healthy moments were spent at "Sunny Side...