Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight of Governor Dickinson milking the Holstein might better be pictured to inspire our people to milk cows instead of treasuries. At the rate civilization is moving in reverse possibly it is high time we all got on our knees...
...dead. Traffic was reduced to almost nothing. Chinese junks, which ply up & down the river bringing vegetables and fruit to the Concessions, feared to come near. Two Chinese vegetable vendors who did were shot. The Concession still had large stores of flour and rice, but perishables were almost gone. Milk had disappeared by week's end; the ice supply was low, and it was 100° in the shade. Even in the French Concession, where vegetables were still obtainable, prices tripled...
Tarzan Finds a Son (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Not stork-borne, this son is the adopted survivor of an airliner wreck on Tarzan's own African escarpment. Reared by Tarzan's mate, Maureen O'Sullivan, on antelope milk, the youngster at five looks like Johnny Weissmuller through the wrong end of an opera glass. He swims like a loon, rides turtles and elephants, fights lions singlehanded, lives just the life every tree-climbing young Tarzan-imitator yearns...
...mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself to his talents. The adjustment was fairly complete by 1929, when in an effort (successful) to stop smoking he went on a five-day binge...
...gave her the chance she wanted. Soon she was stumping all over upper New York State. She was husky and exuberant, she needed a cause, and the pay left her something to send home. She used to get up at five or six in the morning to catch the milk train and loved it. She loved the rough-&-tumble arguments she got into, the job of talking down the mayor and the local minister and the village trustees until they let her speak. In one town she always got a contribution from a rich old woman who said she couldn...