Word: goats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...
...fabulously white than ever set off against the shadowed course of events at a frowning castle across the channel in Cornwall. There Tristram, "orgulous and full of fate," is discovered lamenting the irony of the wedding he has blindly arranged for his gaunt-armed Uncle Mark, a "man-shaped goat" with a salacious eye. Having awakened late to its meaning for him, Tristram has a name upon his lips that becomes a cry, a despairing exultation: "Isolt, Isolt of Ireland...
...element of chance. But today there are no upsets. An Olympian calm pervades Plympton Street, for the conventional huge scarlet margin has been got out, dusted, and is ready for service. The Lampoon with its gracile lethargy and its dogged comic spirit has without cessation offered itself as the goat or the this or whatever constitutes the flors and fauna of defeated parties for so many years that the CRIMSON has come to admire its tenacity and is sincere when it says that if natural laws could be overturned and two victors claim one victory there is no one that...
...Goat Alley. The fact that all the actors and characters in this play are Negroes lends a flavor of piquancy to what might otherwise be an undistinguished dish of canned melodrama. The heroine is forced by poverty and misunderstanding, from one man's bosom to another's, thereby irritating her husband into catastrophic petulance. He does his beastly best, poor fellow, in the third act, never realizing that deep down she loved him always. "Earnest but crude," said generous critics...
Readers of Editor Currie asked themselves: Have the goat men stormed the citadel of the Ladies' Home Journal? Is it possible that a magazine founded (in 1883) to give "authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public...