Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operating table feels his stomach turn over as a nurse walks toward him with the dreaded cone in her hand. "Ugh!"' says he (gulp). "Ether...
...newsman: "Balls are what I fear." Mourned Keeper Thuman: "Footballs, baseballs, tennis balls, golf balls, ping-pong balls, billiard balls, marbles-they're all bad for elephants. But the worst are those ordinary rubber balls that children bounce. They bounce them near the cages. The elephants gulp them down. Then they get sick." A hard rubber ball, said he, killed a hippopotamus in the Cincinnati zoo. nearly killed one in New York. It took two weeks of nursing to save Julie, the Bronx tapir, who ate a soft rubber ball. Mr. Thuman knew only one elephant who could digest...
...Gulp...
...cowered in Santiago Harbor. Captain Hobson took command of the coal-carrier Merrimac and sank her at the harbor's entrance in a vain attempt to bottle up the Spanish fleet. Spanish sailors caught Captain Hobson. They courteously offered him a swig of liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept him jailed for a month. Then Spanish-American fighting ended. Captain Hobson, 28, "handsome, tall and moral," returned to the U. S. a Hero, some four years be fore a later Hero (Lindbergh) was born. Girls kissed Hero Hobson in cities from...
Through all the rain and raw mist that swallowed Cambridge in one gulp last night an old comrade came slipping along in the mud all the way to Lowell House where the Vagabond lives in the construction shack. This true friend of Vagabondia brought good tidings of the morning's adventure...