Word: gamecock
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...California court, Tyrus Raymond ("The Georgia Peach") Cobb, 68, always a crusty gamecock on the baseball diamond, faced a $50,000 personal injuries suit slapped on him by Elbert D. Felts, oldtime Pacific Coast Leaguer, ex-hunting companion and ex-friend of Cobb's. Felts claimed that Cobb, outraged because he had been stuck with a dinner check, attacked him and aggravated an old back injury. The jury, though not exactly swayed by Ty's plea of self-defense (he has had two heart attacks), decided that Felts's injuries did not merit payment of damages, voted...
Ever since Gigli replaced Caruso as the Metropolitan Opera's star tenor in 1920, audiences have applauded him less for artfulness than for artlessness. He sang and acted with his peasant's gusto-"with the whole force of his body," one critic wrote, "as naturally as a gamecock fights." Vocal style usually went out the window when he saw a chance to prolong a honeyed mezza voce, a thundering high B-flat, a sob, a gulp or a tearful portamento...
...Salas exulted again & again for the benefit of the radio & television audience: "I ween the chompanship of Mexico!" After being reminded that he was now world champion, Salas amended his boast by a preposition: "I ween the chompanship for Mexico!" Then, for almost two solid hours, the unskilled little gamecock refused to settle down. Instead, he strutted up & down through the arena's crowded aisles, sopping up the adulation, embracing and kissing anyone within reach of his stubby arms. He wanted to tell the whole world how he became the first Mexican fighter ever to win an undisputed world...
...down into six main classes (abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, affections). Then under each class he listed the pertinent one-word topics, following these with a rich array of synonyms, colloquialisms and comparisons. The topic courage, for instance, involved for him everything from audacity to spunk, Perseus to gamecock, to "beard the lion in his den." Roget also included appropriate quotations: e.g., "Every dog is a lion at home" . . . "The valiant never taste of death but once...
...they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...