Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken across a field to a river bank, Preacher Williams was lashed 14 times with a mule's belly-strap. Miss Blagden's turn came next. The huskiest of the six swung the belly strap, laid four solid clouts on her back & thighs. Miss Blagden and Preacher Williams were then told never to come back to Crittenden County...
...There is growing unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey. Last week, 15 days after his triumphant entry, Italy's new Viceroy of Ethiopia rode out again in an airplane piloted by his son, who has acted as an aerial chauffeur for his father...
...Cottonman Clayton. Assuring the Senators that Mr. Clayton ran the Cotton Exchange single-handed from his Houston office, the broker declared: "Any reforms on the Exchange must come from legislation, and they must come immediately." Strangled by Cottonman Clayton's domination, the Exchange was "as dead as the mule down on your farm...
...hunt made up in enthusiasm and skill what it lacked in fanciness. Socially a cut above the night foxhunters, who went to their midnight meets in cars, brought their hounds in scattered couples, it was still democratic enough to include a pickaninny on a mule. But that autumn the Cap'n sold enough of his remaining heirlooms to spruce up the place, put out regal hospitality for the rich neighboring Sandhill Hunt. That day might have ended our fox's career had not Author Harriss, no friend to sentimental reprieves, pronounced for once a stay of sentence...
When he was a youngster bumming around the coal fields of the West a generation ago, big, red-headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete...