Word: crowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much for its subject, and he gave up in disgust. Or it may be that Mr. Sidis had not the capacity of Professor Gildersleeve and John Stuart Mill to carry on with his work. Whatever the facts, the Tribune has succumbed to the democratic temptation to crow over the failure of an extraordinary individual. The case, of course, proves nothing whatever about prodigies, except that the crowd is jealous of them...
...physics. This is the fourth time that a Nobel award has been made to an American scientist.* The fact that 66 men and women in all have received Nobel decorations in physics, chemistry and medicine in the 23 years since they were inaugurated, gives America no particular license to crow. As Dr. Millikan himself has said, "We have not produced one-half as many-I think I may say one-fifth as many-out-standing scientific men in proportion to our population as have Holland, England, Germany or France...
Foreign Office issued a communiqué, directing the police to protect Frenchmen at all costs, regardless of color, and threatening offensive tourists with expulsion if they tried to import Jim Crow tactics. France needs the loyalty of her colored colonies even more than she needs the cash of American tourists...
Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam the English Channel from Dover to Calais. (Although the distance was only 22.5 miles as the crow flies, he swam approximately 56 miles miles.) Sullivan, 31, made his first unsuccessful attempt to swim the channel ten years ago and has made five other unsuccessful attempts since then...
...expect to bray like jackasses, and bark like dogs, crow like roosters, howl like wolves, kick like mules, run like lightning, lie like Satan-all for thee. And now, may faith, hope and power remain with thee until every vote is counted," et cetera...