Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...October 1871, the legendary Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lantern in the city of Chicago and caused the great $200,000,000 fire. In the next few months 68 U. S. insurance companies failed and 81 were forced to suspend business outside their own States. To pay off claims against it of $529,365 required not only every cent of Fireman's Fund capital but an assessment on its stockholders. Chairman Levison likes to boast of this as the first time the company went broke and yet survived. The second time was after...
...sparklers in the hands of hilarious, milling, cheering celebrants ushered in an eight-day revival of St. Paul's historic wintersports carnival, last Saturday night. Not since most of them were youngsters, 20 years ago, had the members of South St. Paul's* old "Hook 'Em Cow Club" had such a night to sing their song. Not since the national American Legion convention of 1924 had downtown St. Paul swarmed with such noisy, enthusiastic thousands...
...abortive attempt to get "I'm An Old Cow Hand" as requested by "Frisky" was nipped in the bud by someone in the know in the station. It being after 4 o'clock at this point and the Scotch having gone the way of all good scotch, the playful fellows decided that it was time to go to bed anyway
...buckskinned trapper in a fur cap is shooting his rifle. Mormons are being ridden out of town. There are also a country political meeting, a stenographer drinking a bright pink soda, a young mother changing her baby's diapers, a barn dance, a hired man milking a cow. Like giant snakes tying the whole together, run the Mississippi and Missouri rivers...
...Nadrljan, Farmer Jovan Bata, 60, bought his first cow. A week later he found the animal dead in her stall. "I can't get over this loss," wrote Farmer Bata before hanging himself on a beam above...