Word: goates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued...
...Pope still maintains his home in San Mateo, near San Francisco, but he has not been in it for four years. He lives with a huge pile of suitcases, his wife Dr. Phyllis Ackerman (an authority on Gothic tapestries) and the family mascot, a small, bronze, one-eared goat from the time of Darius the Great. The goat's name is Hugo...
...both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke Nov. 4 by the close margin of 319 votes, following a campaign in which most of the color was interpolated by the Independent Candidate, Dr. John Richard ("Goat-Gland") Brinkley (TIME...
...salary-cropped Senators thought so, they did not say so. There of course had to be some goat to blame for this sizable deficit. Prime Minister Mussolini found a handy one in the U. S. The Wall Street crash of 1929, blamed for so much, was apparently responsible for Fascismo's troubles as well. Said...
...artificial lake in every Kansas county; 2) free health clinics, including assistance for prostate troubles. This latter long had been his specialty, advertised over his powerful radio broadcasting station KFKB. Though expelled for his activity from the American Medical Association, he has prospered. He also offered rejuvenation, grafting goat glands in patients' groins for $750 each. No newspaper supported him, but over his radio he cried: "Let's pasture the goats on the State House lawn!" and came within, a few thousand votes of doing it. Although his adherents had to write his name in on the ballot...