Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust, Copey a Crisp," he countered, "Nonsense ! 'Copey Crisper Than Ever.' " Once Professor Copeland was nearly at a loss. It was discovered that an old Harvard rule permitted the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory to keep a cow in the yard. Young Harvard whooped, dashed out to buy "Copey" a cow, was with difficulty restrained...
Upon the broad side of a barn on a farm in central Washington, appears the figure of the tobacco bull, in the identical gallant pose given him by bill posters everywhere. And on this barn, as on 10,000 others, the cow member of the cast regards Her Hero with the same wistful admiration and look of fond desire which caused the clubwomen of a California suburb to request the removal of the poster, as duly reported in TIME (July...
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...East Stroudsburg, Pa., James Martin put down his rifle to chase a cow. The cow ran toward his younger brother, Charles, stepped on the rifle, shot Charles Martin dead...
...lobby of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum building. But observers found that sly Artist Robinson had slipped into his design for capitalist Rockefeller Center a vague Communist import. His mural in blue, buffs and warm greys will show from left to right "a man, woman and child; a dog, cow and vegetation, with books and instruments at their feet; a triangular group of skyscrapers, rising above churches, temples, etc. of a former time; a huge gun flanked by two masks and backed by a ruined arch." Boardman Robinson, mild radical, one-time cartoonist for the radical New Masses, might have explained...