Word: mule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such unrepentant imposture, although common enough, was not practised last week in Paris, when a banquet consisting chiefly of horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three members of the famed Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar. The three, all by way of being gourmets, *were: Paul Painlev, mathematician, twice Prime Minister (1917; 1925); Minister of Agriculture Henri Queuille; and Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski...
...miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely has to resort to flogging. On the eve of a great military campaign, Purta, bored, jealous, at last makes herself attractive to Temugin, and accompanies him next day in the best mule litter, the one with springs...
Strangler Lewis and Joe Stecher, a farmer boy who once made a mule lose consciousness by locking its ribs in a scissors hold, met on a mat in St. Louis and pulled at each other's heads for one hour while a sleepy newspaper man snored loudly somewhere near them. After a while Lewis put Stecher down, then put him down again, winning the world's heavyweight wrestling championship...
Arizona is a mule. He belongs to the Army. His neck was wounded by shrapnel in the Argonne. All three "A's" were condensed as one on a clean new blanket which the 30th Infantry, now stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco, last week draped upon Arizona and then saluted. While the men marched by him, Arizona, little knowing that he had committed "valor under fire," but doubtless remembering many a whack on the behind in the days when he dragged a field gun, rolled a mulish eye at Brigadier-General Frank C. Bolles and mulishly munched carrots...
...rumble gently through the end of September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...