Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sofas. In the piano exhibit, eleven-year-old Frances Dean, of Comanche, delighted her schoolmates and amazed exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
Meddlers Beware. Politicians and chair-warmers who tried to fight blunt Dr. Hawley came out second best. Angered by pork-hungry Congressmen who wanted V.A. hospitals in out-of-the-way places, Hawley cracked: "I recommend that we build hospitals like they do hog houses in Indiana-on skids. Then they could be hauled around from one congressional district to another just before election...
Success. In Fowler, Colo., a hog-calling contest was abruptly interrupted when hogs broke out of their pens some three blocks away, joined the contestants to see what all the calling was about...
Arrested and jugged overnight for drunkenness were John D. Spreckels III, 38, one of the playboys who share the Spreckels sugar fortune, and his curlylocked third wife, Lou Dell, 37. Heretofore John's fun-loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered...
...session passed that did not witness exploratory jabs into some phase of the past or present activities of the Democratic administration. The pertinent facts of the May-Garsson scandal were public knowledge by the time that the GOP took up the reins of Congress; but Republicans can hog most of the credit for the smear "investigation" of David Lilienthal and the recent brief and abortive attempt to discredit the security measures of the Atomic Energy Commission. The grand finale is now under...