Word: mice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night with the gentle foxes of Tob. At length, inspired by an angel, he roused Israel to wage against the Aramaeans, a war which turned out most profitably and made his reputation. Honored among all the people, he returned to his mother in Zebulon...
Dick, so the story goes, was a poor lad who found his way to London and was taken into the service of the merchant Fitzwarren. To rid himself of the mice in his garret-bedroom, he bought a cat for a penny. As it was a custom for all the Fitzwarren servants to send something of their own in their master's ships to make a little money, Dick was virtually forced to send his cat away; but the cat caught rats for a foreign king; and the king paid enormous sums for the cat; and all this money Dick...
...previous period of traditional inaction, and passed on, serene in the accomplishment of nothing. It has also before it the record of its parent, the Council of 1923-24, which, being driven mad by the repeated goads of a few tireless souls, labored and brought forth several valuable mice among them, for example, the decision on Junior Managerships, which has since been neatly entombed somewhere in the inner sanctuaries of the H. A. A. It is within the power of this new-old Council to be a very real force in the life of the College. Whether...
...best laid schemes o' mice and men . . ."-both Premiers Ramsay MacDonald and Edouard Herriot were evidently conscious of these simple words of Poet Burns...
...Mice. While the cats (Hagen, Sarazen, Smith, Barnes) were away, the mice (Brady, Macfarlane, Farrell, Forrester, Diegel, 150 others) played -for the Metropolitan Golf Championship, at Roslyn, L. I. The mice finished in the order named, Mike J. Brady nibbling a 292 out of the Engineers' Club course-no mean feat, even for a cat. His last three nibbles were...