Word: goat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal we should be producing is being rep laced by substitutes, mostly bituminous coal from non-union mines. Must our industry always be the "goat" of soft troubles...
...GOAT AND COMPASSES? Martin Armstrong?Harper ($2.00) You gaze down at people from the church steeple of Crome one sea-windy day: thin Susan Furly marching from door to door with the parish magazine; buxom Bella Jorden, preening her black silk on the porch of the Goat and Compasses; Rose Jorden talking furtively with some man through a hedge; old Mrs. Dunk, the charwoman, pottering about the graveyard; plump-breasted Sally Dunk, flirting boldly in the lane. Of an evening you hear the local males talking at the inn, Crome's moral centre. By night, the sleeping selves...
...grumbling cook and masterful mistress, who dominates the progress of physical events in the Villa Said, draws the blinds and scoffs her master's self-pity for a feverish night. He swallows his chocolate, demolishes brioches. To this mistress, later his wife, Anatole France is a dithering old goat-beard, incapable of putting on his own underdrawers...
...large goat...
Belgium grew impatient. Burgomaster Max lost much popularity. He became the "goat" of the situation. "It is all his fault," grumbled the people along the streets. "He should have supported Van de Vyvere," declared the indignant. "Well," philosophized the exasperated, "let him try to form his 'business Cabinet'." He did, could not, resigned...