Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bowie. I might also add that I waited table at a hotel, sold soda-pop at the ball games and races on Saturdays, sold newspapers, worked for a doctor for two years taking care of his horse and buggy, sweeping out his office and, in addition, milked a cow-all for my board to enable me to go to school. I am not sensitive as to my age or ashamed of my early efforts to earn a living. While I have given Crafton no claim of distinction by reason of my birth, I know of no cause for reproach...
...audiences are likely to be less disturbed by Novelist Cocteau's nightmare metaphors but they may find them-accompanied by Cocteau's voice, in interpolations for emphasis or elucidation, and by George Auric's sombre score-a shade less unintelligible than they sound. Typical shots: A cow with a hide made of maps; blood flowing from the mouth of a small boy; a black man with small gauze wings; wire masks; stars, muzzles of guns, the Virgin Mary, a sofa-back through which emerges a man's head...
Your footnote to comment on "The Last Round-Up" (Oct. 23, Music) reminds me that out here we like to define a dogie: a little calf that's lost its mother and whose father's run off with another cow...
...more exact, a dogie is a calf whose mama has died and whose papa has run off with another cow...
...wounded. Next day fresh Arab riots broke out at Haifa, Nablus and on the second day in Jerusalem where two Arabs were killed, 60 wounded as British police battled to keep them out of Jerusalem's ghetto. From Egypt two thundering squadrons of British planes took off to cow Jerusalem. There Arabs plaintively restated their eternal grievance: "Jewish immigrants have so much money that poor Arab farmers are tempted and sell out to them. Unless something is done the Jews will slowly buy up all of Palestine...