Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack Whiting (America's Sweetheart). No impresarios were ever more feverishly active than droll, cow-eyed Jack Haley (Free For All), and hook-nosed Sid Silvers, who used to sit in an upper box and insult Phil Baker. Cropping out here & there in the proceedings is curvesome, loud-shouting Ethel Merman (Zimmerman...
...century of barnstorming with Gates's Flying Circus. Many a youngster still in his 'teens may remember the flashy posters screaming about the "Spine Chilling, Nerve Tingling'' feats of Gates's "Airdevils" to be seen at the fair grounds, the race track, a certain cow pasture, or whatever passed for a flying field...
...left for Ilium too soon. On a time the young fellows used to take him out to course the wild goats, the deer, the hares: but now ?he lay derelict and masterless on the dung-heap before the gates, on the deep bed of mule-droppings and cow-dung which collected there till the serfs of Odysseus had time to carry it off for manuring his broad acres. So lay Argos the hound, all shivering with dog-ticks. Yet the instant Odysseus approached, the beast knew him. He thumped his tail and drooped his ears forward, but lacked power...
...about keeping healthy & wise. Professor Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University settled that point. Babies are born with sufficient iron and copper in their blood and livers to keep going for quite a while. But calcium, which babies need for bones, they must get from mother's or a cow's milk. If a baby takes too much calcium from its mother. she must replenish her supply by eating calcium-bearing foods. Otherwise her teeth may decay, her bones ache, her resistance to disease decline. Thus calcium (lime) is the mineral which cooks must closely watch. For most people...
...alive in Chicago it would produce 359,000,000 descendants in three years. He is proudest of a kill he made in one night near Baton Rouge, La. The State called him in, asked him what he would need. Said Ratkiller Nicholes: "I'll need one ground-up cow, 16 barrels of sweet potatoes, 16 full cheeses and 50 niggers." The 50 Negroes distributed cow, potatoes and cheese, all poisoned, throughout 50-mile drain ditches. Next day 15,000 rats lay dead...