Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with three castaways discovered last fortnight by Julius Fleischmann (TIME, Nov. 2), who sailed away in the opposite direction on his yacht Camargo. The castaways- Elmer J. Palliser, Paul Stackwick, Gordon Brawner-were in fair health, but fat and flabby from their six-month diet of coconuts and wild hog...
...might have disconcerting effect and, as Grove was likely to win anyway, there was little to be lost in trying it. For two innings, it appeared that the strategy had been brilliant. In the warm, bright afternoon, the crowd that filled Sportsman's Park chortled and cheered; a hog-caller who had begged his way to St. Louis from Arkansas appalled his section of the grandstand by making curious noises. Derringer, whose brother owns a drugstore in West Frankfort, Ill., and who pitched his first professional game at Gary, W. Va. with famed Sheriff William Hatfield for an umpire...
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...farm, some 70 years ago, and I presume up to now, it was often said of a man that he was "independent as a hog on ice: if he can't stand up he can lie down." The explanatory half of the saying dropped out of use as obvious. TIME might have more pertinently retorted to the gentleman from Indiana...
Only old England could have produced him. In no other country could Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) have been at the same time so respectable and so successful. And few men even in England have added knighthood** to their grey hairs by pursuing to the end such a hog-calling as a literary critic's. Evan Charteris's biography, which lets Gosse's own letters do most of the work, gives a fair picture of this peripatetic, ponderous but proficient policeman of Parnassus...