Word: gores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a candidate for Governor of Mississippi threatened to "lick Fred Sullens, editor of the Jackson Daily Liar," Sullens Page-Oned: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with...
...Rockefeller Jr.'s steers; from the Rockefeller estate in Mount Pleasant, N.Y. The pair cleared a five-foot fence. Next day one was still at large in the countryside; the other was bulldogged after he darted into a ball game, tossed two would-be captors, and tried to gore an automobile...
...meagre roof over the sombre heads of young men studying for the Puritan ministry. The gift of a prudent merchant to a struggling college, the bare wooden rooms and cell-like studies were the omnipresent manifestations of the privations of the early faith. Names such as Mather, Gore, Winthrop are common to the plates that hung on the harsh doors. Zealous advocates of stern religion left these rooms to lead the spiritual life of the northern colonies...
Veto for Baruch. Tennessee's handsome young Albert A. Gore presented his own blunt plan for price control: an overall bill to freeze all prices, including farm commodities and wages. The Gore bill was taken directly from the ideas of Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, head of the World War I Industries Board, and had Baruch's official blessing. The House rejected it by a vote...
When handsome Albert Gore called at the White House, conferred with the President, a rumor spread that the Administration will send Gore's clean-cut price bill into the ring in place of the punch-drunk bill the committee had given such a beating...