Word: goates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milk, Goat...
Perhaps the milk came from the President's goat that Jones wanted to get. Does W. W. J. stand for World's Worst Joke...
...great gesture towards a fortune built by automobiles is the Chrysler Building. Oldtime Manhattanites recalled last week that 50 years ago its site was a goat pasture. Modern Manhattanites recognize it as the most desirable uptown office building, admire Texas Co. for having rented 14 of its floors, at an annual rental...
...sharp contrast to harpies, gorgons, sea serpents, lamias, werewolves, dragons. He is virtually the only one who did not harm man. Legend locates him in India, China, Florida, Africa, Canada, Germany, The Bronx. He was usually supposed to have the body of a horse (sometimes an ass, a goat) with a sharp horn (from a few inches to seven feet long) protruding from his forehead. In combat he could destroy a lion. He refused to allow man to capture him alive. His horn, said the alchemists, would act as an antidote for'poison, would cure convulsions, the holy disease (epilepsy...
...special apartments at the Poona jail, the special herd purchased to provide the Saint with goat's milk, the special chef hired to pamper the prisoner's taste (TIME, May 12), not even all these luxuries sufficed. Poona was deemed too warm. By means so secret that no detail leaked out, the prisoner was spirited to Purandhar Military Sanitarium at the salubrious altitude of 4,500 ft. There every day, whether he liked it or not, St. Gandhi received a tender but thorough physical examination by a corps of British physicians. As during the illness of George...