Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...
Roosevelt. He's well-known in labor spy circles. . . . Jones has got a flock of guys out in the field, in several states, passing themselves off as newspapermen. They blow our people to parties, buy them drinks and all that, and then pump them...
...when he agreed to run for the Senate against Republican Senator Wallace H. White. Because shrewd Governor Brann well knew the temper of his conservative State and counted on many a Republican vote, no famed New Dealers went up from Washington to help his fight. But into Maine did flock such Party orators as Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle, onetime American Legion National Commander Louis Johnson, Ambassador to Poland John Cudahy, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Jack Dempsey...
Such a proposal stirs up a flock of visions. The very name "Supreme court" gives a hint of the mercurial nature of the proposal. Such pretensions have not been made by learned men since the universal church of the middle ages lost its franchise to monopolize education. Not without malice Professor Dewey of Columbia dubbed it a "Constitutional Assembly of Intellectuals," and it evidently follows that the Harvard Yard is to be the Versailles Tennis Court...
...automobile accidents killed 37,000 persons, permanently crippled 105,000, hurt 1,000,000 more, with a total property loss of some $1,600,000,000. One of the first to see that this carnage and waste on the highways was not due to a flock of local factors but to a few basic inefficiencies was a young Leland Stanford graduate named Miller McClintock...