Word: mule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touches a drop of yon white mule...
...easier to order Raisuli's removal than to accomplish it, however. No mule and no prancing Arab steed could be found strong enough to support his grotesque corpulence and a special litter had to be constructed to bear his great weight. A strange cavalcade left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban...
...started in then to learn something about him, and I've been learning ever since. In 1909 I came over to the States and went down south to go over the battlefields of the war. I hired a pony and a mule and went through the Wilderness, by Petersburg, up the Rappahanock, in fact I went over every inch of ground where the fighting occurred. I stayed often at farmhouses, for the hotels, what few there were, were rather uncomfortable. And when the trip was over I came back to Washington, sold my pony and mule, and made...
...Mineola, N. Y., at a "freak animal show," Jack Johnson, "monkey-faced mule," kicked Rosie, cow, in the throat. Rosie was a freak because her heart was located in her throat, its pulsations plainly visible. Kicked in the heart, she died...
...Squire of Don Quixote in process of ruling the fanciful city of Barataria. Thus are the satire and the politics neatly wrapped and delivered. The slapstick falls chiefly to the lot of one Robert Rossire, who muffles his true being in the folds and fur of Dapple, Sancho's mule. While Mr. Skinner 'dominated the proceedings, Dapple was responsible for the most engaging drolleries. The most significant features of the production were the spectacular settings and direction for which Richard Boleslawsky, an alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, was presumably responsible. He fractured a number of Broadway traditions and demonstrated...