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Word: mule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several years ago a mule cheered for M.I.T. much to the embarrassment of its keepers until they discovered it was a joke being perpetrated by some Harvard students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Derivation of Cadet Mule Leaves Sympathies of West Point Cadet in Doubt | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

...assured that the mule will be brunet in type and of a calm and equitable dispesition, but we cannot guarantee where its sympathies will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Derivation of Cadet Mule Leaves Sympathies of West Point Cadet in Doubt | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

That's the West Point mascot, the old army mule from Fort Devens, Mass, which arrives at the Soldiers Field stables this morning in the care of its usual two attendants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Derivation of Cadet Mule Leaves Sympathies of West Point Cadet in Doubt | 10/17/1936 | See Source »

...have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap. However, whether she did or not, I am only wondering why four strokes from a mule's belly-strap in Arkansas is so much more noticeable and so much more terrible than the dozens of blows from a policeman's billy in other strike areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...decor of a successful mine superintendent's home is that of John L. Lewis' neat colonial house in Alexandria, Va. There in his lovely garden he now receives the flower of legislative society. Perhaps the only mannerism which still betrays his early career as a mine mule-skinner is his habit of hitching up his coat sleeves before he carves the roast. His conversation is straightforward, if sometimes redundant, and he is quite capable of conveying, if not originating, an acceptable image. Sonorously he speaks of the democratic necessity, in these troubled political times, of a large, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Storm Over Steel | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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