Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Couldn't Say No. Its chief virtue is that it returns Florence Moore to the legitimate stage. A 20th century, wisecracking Portia, she furiously "strains the milk of human kindness" to win the man she loves. With such dynamic energy does Miss Moore zoom through three acts of vaudeville farce that the entire encumbrance is drawn in by the suction and swept along to success. She impersonates a fictitious partner of the penniless lawyer she adores, wins a lawsuit for him in spite of himself, and wins him, too, after an impassioned speech set in the middle...
...Mongolia's lakes and marshy meadows these creatures laid their reptilian eggs; roamed, fought and died, their heavy carcasses sometimes sinking into quicksands, or being dragged by currents into still backwaters, to settle in silt. . . . After perhaps eight million years, other creatures ruled Mongolia. They were warm-blooded, milk-giving, viviparous-mammals from tiny moles to a shaggy monster with columnar legs and a neck long enough to browse on treetops, a sort of elephantine giraffe. . . . After several millions of years there grew up in mammalia an erect Two-Legs who learned to use tools...
...what, good purpose can a cow That brings no calf or milk be bent...
...York. The delicate art of corrupting public officers has been taken up in New York by purveyors of milk and poultry. It is an axiom of the chicken business that to sell polluted fowls you must first pollute the city inspectors. This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera. Last week Mayor Walker and his friends discussed whether or not they could afford to investigate the thing. It was right in their own party...
Frank O. Lowden, returning home, gave utterance to an enthusiasm: "The Danes are the most thoroughly organized farmers in the world. Their co-operative enterprise covers both the production and distribution of farm products as well as the manufacture of such products as condensed milk, butter, bacon and other pork derivatives. It attends to its own financing, marketing and exporting. The organization functions on a nation-wide basis. The middleman is absolutely eliminated...