Word: goats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roaring down the road from Amaroussi to Athens, throttle wide, came the motor of Greece's goat-bearded Elder Statesman Eleutherios Venizelos. Behind was a green limousine, spitting bullets. Crouched on the floor Statesman Venizelos shouted encouragement to his wife, exhortations to his chauffeur, both painfully but not seriously wounded. From the balcony of the hospital where both were taken Eleutherios Venizelos addressed a cheering crowd. "Everyone knows who is responsible!" cried he, and not a Greek in the crowd but was aware that he referred to Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris...
...week-end two foreign goats were justifiably tagged. Goat No. 1 was the Government of France, which guarantees to its peasants a price of $1.45 per bu. True to form, the peasants garnered more wheat than France could eat. What it could not eat, France was last week dumping for what it could get.* It was even willing to lay down wheat in Montreal, all expenses paid at a price below Winnipeg...
...Goat No. 2 was the Argentine, which is busily clearing its elevators of carry-over for the next crop. Visions of Argentine wheat flooding the U. S. haunt the Board of Trade, but the Buenos Aires prices are not yet far enough below Chicago to hurdle the tariff...
...hardy enough to grow in the drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of his 59 years painting 3,000 pictures and preaching to three continents the gospel of Unifying Humanity Through Art. He was grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich, honorary president of Manhattan's Roerich Museum. What made him valuable to Secretary Wallace was that from 1924 to 1929 he painted his way through Central Asia, is an authority on its lands and flora...
...Nova Scotia, Scot Willis McPhee left his house bright & early one morning bent on swapping his rusty 40.40 rifle for what he could get. Dark & late that night Scot Willis McPhee returned with a Mauser rifle, an eight-day clock, a pair of rubber boots, a yellow cat, a goat great with...