Word: donkey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since the Civil War, this Party has ridden to success only four times-twice with Grover Cleveland, twice with Woodrow Wilson. The rest of the time, largely under the tutelage of William Jennings Bryan, its presidential record has been inglorious. Indeed, even when Mr. Bryan has not piloted the donkey himself, he has usually ridden behind the jockey. Numbers of Democrats say his riding has made the donkey lame...
...whooping cough, pass the child nine times over and under a donkey from left to right." That is a prescription of the 17th Century. For the same complaint, 100 years ago, a doctor would have shaken his head, stroked his beaver, written Pil. Quin. Sulph. on a brown pad, and the mother would have thought she had a cureall. Today medicos do not always find it necessary to fortress their ignorance with esoteric metaphors; many can talk, some can even write, of their calling refreshingly, candidly, in simple words. An example is Dr. S. M. Rinehart, who has written...
Robert M. LaFollette: "I was reported to be 'paralyzing Washington' by wearing a hat with a straw crown, felt brim. Said a Chicago colyumist: 'Since Bob made an animal all his own out of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant, he's simply running wild. He'll be eating ice-cream on his ham and eggs next...
...finances of Rumania are in a terrible tangle and the country owes more money than it can pay off in a donkey's age. Moreover, there is not enough money in Rumania to buy 60% of the stock of foreign concerns in Rumania. Consequently, under such conditions, the Government is accused of trying to enrich Rumania at the expense of foreigners without paying a cent in return...
Bigger than a lion, the young liger reveals the characteristic proportions of a tiger. He wears his father's khaki coat, adorned by faint tiger-stripes. He flatters his father by wearing a beard and favors his mother by his ears. His mane, however, is "like a donkey...