Word: goats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Galsworthy, famed British novelist: "In an address at Bedford College, London, I defended the use of slang, declared it to be 'vigorous and apt.' Said I: 'Probably most of our vital words were slang once. . . . I am waiting now to see "gets my goat" academized by Professor Saintsbury...
...question of socialism will be the subject under discussion when Debating Union meets tonight at 7.10 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union to consider the resolution: "Resolved, that the goat of present day economic evolution should be socialism...
...Story. Renard, lusting for chicken fricasee, disguises herself as a nun and attempts to make off with the Cock, but is foiled by the alertness of the Cat and the Goat, who frighten her away. Renard tries again, disguised as a tramp, and, with the lure of sweetmeats, almost gets her way with the Cock. She begins to pluck the screaming fowl when the Cat and the Goat again come to the rescue and dispatch the marauder, ending the piece with a dance of triumph...
...Daugherty himself once expressed it, he knew from the beginning that because of the circumstances attending the appointment Harding gave him, he was destined to be the 'goat' of the Harding Administration. Knowing that, to think that he would commit a crime would argue such a combination of cupidity together with lack of ordinary intelligence as is utterly impossible to believe about as intelligent a man as Daugherty...
...cast is as follows: Worther Boyd Smith 1G Mrs. Worther Miss Mary Sands Crowl Albert Ward Dorothy Crowl Miss Maryalice Secoy White Goat Harold Bates