Word: kangaroos
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...Kangaroo first: Yellow-Dog Dingo behind...
...Kalgoorlie, Australia, she read Kipling's Just-So Stories?"Old Man Kangaroo" and "Yellow Dog Dingo"?to her two sons. For years Kipling was their favorite and many a long trip was eased by repetitions of the doings of the 'Stute Fish, the Elephant's Child, and Mr. One-Two-Three- Where's-My-Breakfast...
...family straggled elegantly into a very British drawing-room, each one mouthing some prejudicial reason why no actress should be allowed to scuttle out of the stage door and under the portcullis. When the actress, name of Elsie Hilary, appeared suddenly and without warning in front of this kangaroo tribunal, she had only one defender beside her betrothed scion. This was the Duke of Warrington who, immediately sensing that the actress had every intention of breaking her engagement without encouragement from Lady Minster, Lady Trench, Lord Trench, Sir Reginald Whelby, Lord Crayle or the family butler, urged that...
Female bandits like Two-Gun Tittle and Kangaroo Kate conduct a reign of terror in Greenwich Village whilst a more charming female looks into the murder of her revivalist uncle...
Ohio. The big issue was a referendum on a bill which would have reestablished "kangaroo courts" (justices of the peace who share in the fines they impose for liquor law violation).*The Anti-Saloon League pressed the bill as a Wet & Dry issue. The bill was defeated by some 300,000 votes. ... In Cleveland it was voted not to revert to mayoralty form of government, to retain the city manager plan, of which Cleveland is the most populous exponent...