Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others. Other Menckenisms filed to the Sun (on Henry Wallace): "If ... he suddenly sprouts wings and begins flapping about the hall, no one will be surprised"; (on Vice Presidential Nominee Glen Taylor): "Soak a radio clown for ten days and ten nights in the rectified juices of all the cow-state Messiahs ever heard of, and you will have him to the life"; (on the convention): "The percentage of downright half-wits has been definitely lower than in, say, the Democratic Convention...
...Lakeville, director of the State Duck Growers' Association: "Brown's master cell upped my egg production 50%. Upped fertility 20%. I thought it was a lot of hokum, but it is the fountain of youth." Reported Dairyman Wilfred Schobel: "This stuff makes the coats of horses and cows shine like mirrors. Makes cows give more milk and eat less. Makes 'em more quiet, too. Took the wiggle out of one real mean cow I own. She just stands there now-all full of the master cell-and behaves...
...envy of U.S. housewives. Last week, T-bone steaks were 70? a lb. in Lethbridge and sirloin was 75? in Ottawa. This was a third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices as high as $23.70 a cwt., griped because the embargo...
...offices. The public was not doing much buying yet-it was still a professional's market-but moving ticker tape was once again a sight to see, and dreams of quick killings were again dreams to dream. Wall Street was nursing a baby bull, and a lot of cow-eyed mother love was suddenly loose in the land...
Jeweled Movement. In Portales, N. Mex., Millard F. Holcomb finally discovered the reason why his cow had been limping for the past six years: his wife's long-lost diamond ring was firmly lodged in its hoof...