Word: donkeys
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...three years in Teheran Mrs. Savage lived in a palace, sang at social functions. The Shah, she says, told her: "Madame, you sing like a bulbul." Under the impression that the Shah was referring to the Persian nightingale, Mme Savage naturally felt flattered. Later she heard a braying donkey called a "bulbul," learned that Persians also applied the term to any noisy animal. Says she today: "I still don't know what the Shah meant...
...where to begin again?" thought the Vagabond; and he recalled the story of the donkey starving between two loads...
...canvases painted during the past two years in the little Balearic island of Ibiza. Her most effective pictures were a portrait of an island bartender, pouring a drink of brandy before a row of gaily labeled bottles; a girl in a striped blouse playing cards; a patient, silver-grey donkey with dejected ears...
...York American correspondent, skipped rope. Mrs. Charles Poletti, wife of the Governor's counsel, won a set of towels by finding more peanuts (39) than anyone else. Mrs. Glenn Green, wife of a United Pressman, pinned a tail closest to the rump of a Democratic donkey, gloated: "That's female United Press accuracy...
...being what it is in France, this struggling emporium of tourist thrills offers for 150 francs ($10) in the afternoon or 450 francs ($30) in the evening to flog soundly one of its garmentless daughters of joy, first on a certified medieval torture wheel, then on an authentic "Spanish donkey" once used by the Inquisition and finally on a guillotine hitherto of somewhat doubtful authenticity...