Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to portray a child s imaginings of his own adventures with a band of opéra bouffe robbers. The boy grinds a hurdy-gurdy drawn by a mule while his mother and grandfather sing. When the robbers hide a stocking full of gold in the hurdy-gurdy, the fun starts. Unable to get at the booty, the robbers get the elders drunk, drag the hurdy-gurdy away with the boy asleep on top. Boy and hurdy-gurdy, mule and dog then endure a series of escapades. They drift about a lake in a rowboat. They are jailed. They...
...Little Rock last week, Lloyd Darnell explained a bill of his which the Arkansas House of Representatives had just passed. "Everyone looks at a mule's teeth to determine his age," said Author Darnell. "Under my bill, mule swappers can't file a mule's teeth [sharp] and sell you an ancient animal on the claim that he's a youngster...
...tourists to the State Capitol at Jefferson City, Mo., many of them eating as they walked, have passed into the oblong Italianate Representatives' Lounge and gaped earnestly at a small, dark, wiry man painting furiously in a faint odor of rotten eggs, while the walls slowly blossomed with mule skinners, Mormons, dancing Negroes and Mississippi boatmen. Artist Thomas Hart Benton last week had finished, and some of the most important murals in the U. S. were ready for their formal unveiling...
...declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
...leading his people on the warpath. At the same time Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody fall into an Indian ambush, Wild Bill to renounce his love Preview audiences wrote the studio...