Word: goats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention them by name.* The article made such conclusions as: "It is possible that both sides were right. . . . Perhaps, after all, New York does not care particularly what happens." And then the nice old ladies and other dime spenders read an editorial entitled, "Part Men, Part Goats," by Barton Wood Currie, who came from the New York Evening World to the Country Gentleman and from there in 1920 to edit the Ladies' Home Journal. Said he: "There is a new order of nobility that the press of our great cities and the pink and green pamphleteers of our literati...
...disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed in to her with his sharp terrier teeth. Then the Legs-in-Authority brought the romantic black stranger up from San Remo on a leash and put him-oh, outrage!-into the goat house...
...Rain (Douglas MacLean, Shirley Mason). Pants drop down, men slip on the sidewalks, a goat butts a marine off a battleship, all the principal characters chase themselves around the countryside without once stumbling into a funny situation. The hero marries the heroine...
...years in prison plus a $10,000 fine. But his attorney, Aaron Sapiro, who is suing Henry Ford for $1,000,000, immediately announced that he would carry Mr. Miller's case to a higher court. "Colonel Miller does not take the attitude of being the 'goat,'" said Mr. Sapiro. "As you know, Colonel Miller did not take the stand or call any witnesses in his defense. This course was decided upon in view of our conviction that the Government haa failed to prove a conspiracy as such, although it proved a great many facts, such...
...bribe, of which Mr. Miller received $50,000. Mr. Daugherty, John T. King and Jesse W. Smith were supposed to have shared the remaining $391,000. Messrs. King and Smith are now dead; Mr. Daugherty is free. Notwithstanding Lawyer Sapiro, many say that Mr. Miller is the "goat...