Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hopper holds his audiences in a way that is given only to geniuses. Which is to say that there are a great many people, and the Playgoer is one of them, who would prefer a play that tastes like day before yesterday's milk, provided De Wolf Hopper is in it, to the latest "Hit from Broadway". But it is speaking disrespectfully of things venerable to put "Wang" in such a class. In spite of its one-cylinder action its songs are often charming. And he would be a critical man who would not consider an evening well spent just...
...first two charges were true,' he told me, as we walked under the shade-trees from the 'Capitol to the Governor's mansion. 'I don't smoke. And I don't drink. Not even coffee or tea. Just water and milk...
...this achievement. Their horses far surpassed those of any neighboring tribe, both in quality and in numbers. The horse even took the place of the cow, and one of the main foods of the people, as well as their principle drink, was made from kumiss, or mare's milk...
...depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind, to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle. This rare being was none other than Richard E. Enright, Police Commissioner of New York City, a man whose "own career demonstrates that men are much like milk-'the cream comes to the top.'" Young and ambitious, Enright began as a railway telegraph operator, became "just a cop" in Manhattan, was "the first and only man in the entire police history of the world" to rise from "the bottom" to his present exalted position. Commissioner-Author Enright...
...always charmingly wrapped in a golden haze, the future in this case is no less pleasing. For year after year the undergraduate has listened apathetically to appeals for his interest in the seething world outside. Except when such participation promised a gay torchlight procession or a chance to hurl milk bottles without interference it moved him not. But when deans and presidents themselves rush from the cloister the undergraduates will doubtless fling aside robes and sandals and plunge into the whirring world...