Word: lions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upbringing was such that I hate to see the U. S. A. at this late day turned into a vermiform appendix of the British Empire, that's all. Got to stop now to congratulate Margaret Halsey, who twisted the British Lion's tail so sweetly in With Malice Toward Some...
...early hours of the crucial Battle of Jutland in 1916 German salvos sent one British ship after another plunging to the bottom. Admiral Sir David Beatty, striding the bridge of the battle cruiser Lion, turned on a young flag officer, Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, and remarked: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
Taken by and large, Western Union girls are a pretty nice lot. They generally talk through their noses, pronounce "nine" as though it rhymed with "lion," and are unduly inquisitive about whose name the telephone is registered under, but in a pinch they'll always come through...
...Chamberlain has come to regard his gamp as a necessary part of his journeys abroad and last week, before pursuing "appeasement" to Rome, he told friends the story of an old lady with an umbrella, who, pursued by a lion, suddenly turned, unfurled her weapon and scared the beast away. Concluded Mr. Chamberlain: "And I am taking my umbrella to Rome...
Most of this animal language has a surprising range. The lion alone makes six distinct sounds, all the way from a hunting call to a grumble of satisfaction after the kill, when it roars "as gently as any sucking dove...