Word: ewe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gimlet, and the morals of a beagle") looked pretty Romajean up & down, blinked, licked his lips, and allowed that maybe he could arrange to oblige. So Romajean came to sing in the choir of the Primitive Pentacostal Host Church, and Gudger figured that he had added another tender ewe lamb to his flock. Preacher Gudger's flock was largely old goat and tough mutton: Old Lady Clutiebelle Tippy, Thrash Mancil, Miz Pinniz Nice, Crave Tollett and a few dozen other crackers from the Orange County, Fla. flatwoods...
...mechanism for the World Bank & Fund was set up last week at Savannah. Basic causes of the trouble were the old differences between Britain and the U.S. on how Bretton Woods should be implemented. But there was a new irritant. U.S. Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson looked like a weary ewe, but ran the nine-day conference with ram-like authority. He got exactly what he wanted-and the British be damned...
...Loud, ewe-mouthed, old-Ziegfeldian Funny woman Fanny Brice, in a Bronx rage involving her husband, her landlord and a winning sweepstake ticket...
...step into the open as the nasty little package of feminine vixenity that she really is, she fails dismally. She does not seem to be able to register the depth of emotion called for. In short, she makes the audience hate her while she is playing the vixen in ewe's clothing, and then does not live up to that hatred when she assumes her true role of the vixen...
Idea of making two sheep grow where only one grew before first occurred to Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), who spent the last 30 years of his life and some $250,000 on the project. In 1886, summering with his family in Nova Scotia, Bell bought an ewe for his children to play with. When they returned next season, there were two sheep-a modest increase indeed, Bell thought, considering that young pigs were usually produced by the dozen, kittens and puppies by the half dozen. If sheep were only one-sixth as prolific as pigs, the poverty...