Word: goates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans pressing in on the Dardanelles and the Middle East in a ferment, Stalin seemed preparing to make the best deal he could to get something out of the grab bag for Russia. If this scheme succeeds, his will be the glory. If it fails, Molotov will be the goat...
Undismayed after three days in Del Rio, Tex. court over his voluntary bankruptcy petition, goat-bearded, goat-gland-grafting old Dr. John Richard Brinkley emerged cheerfully with Lawyer Herbert Davis, declared he would meet every just claim among the million dollars his creditors seek...
...first it looked doubtful whether the British would go on to take it. The way was long: 600 miles. The first 300 to Sirte were across blank desert, broken only by occasional airfields marked with white stones very much like gravestones. After Sirte the land was more hospitable, goat and camel country where the determined Italians had planted 3,500,000 date palms and 2,000,000 olive trees, and arable fields which yield a hard wheat suitable for macaroni. But even this more fruitful country seemed hardly worth taking. The British had made it certain that Egypt would...
Defiant Grower Johnston did not say that the Government should be the goat forever. But, comparing surplus cotton stocks to a strategic-materials stockpile, he intimated that the Government might sell the cotton abroad at a profit after the war. (He recalled that after World War I the foreign cotton market soared.) He also placed faith in the Council's fight for greater domestic consumption. He even preached cotton hosiery. When he reproached American girls for running around with silk stockings "like yellow-legged pullets," the wife* of a retired broker named William Henry Wallace Jr., sitting...
...Fields under the pseudonym Mahatma Kane Jeeves wrote "Bank Dick," he played the lead, and he directed the director. That should be warning enough for anyone not a slapstick fanatic; and even Fields' staunchest fans will long for a goat-in-the-boudoir-of-Mac-West scene like that which marked the peak of "My Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon...