Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MILDRED PAXTON MOODY (Mrs. Dan...
Greatest triumph of Mark Twain's Jim Smiley was the training of a broad jumping frog on which he won many a bet. Chief concern of the story is about a bet Smiley made with a stranger that his frog, "Dan'l Webster," could jump farther than any frog in the country. The frogs were lined up. The stranger's animal gave an ineffectual leap, went a few feet. Came Dan'l's turn to jump. He would not budge. Said Mark Twain...
...Smiley stood scratching his head. . . . And he ketched Dan'l by the nape of the neck, and lifted him up and says, 'Why, blame my cats, if he don't weigh five pound!' And turned him upside down, and he belched out a double handful of shot. And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man-he set the frog down and took out after that feller...
Fortnight ago, Texas's Governor Dan Moody regretfully told a London newsman, interviewing him over the trans-Atlantic telephone, how mobbers at Sherman had killed Convict George Hughes, 41, Negro, how they had dragged his body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter...
...Governor Dan Moody, apprized of the situation, sent 70 militiamen, was reported to have telegraphed: "Protect the Negro, but don't shoot anybody...