Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1853, just as the Big Ditch is freed of ice, Dan Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
...afternoon. Pride and hope and confidence in a team that met defeat on a strange battle ground last Saturday was never so forcefully or convincingly demonstrated. The team entrained silently Thursday morning while the Corps was still in class, but the invigorating and encouraging spirit of the Twelve Hundred Mule Team was still...
...Local Boy Makes Good or. The Mule That Went to Harvard" is an appropriate title for the biography of "Pete," long-eared mascot of the Pointers...
...brought in yesterday on an old chugging, war-time truck, accompanied by two attendants and a sergeant. Before his sudden rise to fame three years ago, the mule was regularly employed in pulling gun carriages about for unappreciative recruits in the artillery, but since going to Harvard his daily routine has been considerably changed...
...years old and a short run such as that around the Stadium, is about all he can do. The college influence has made him quite an aristocrat, but, thank God, we haven't been able to detect any signs of a Harvard accent on him yet. The last mule the Army brought to Cambridge was a draft animal used for dumping the garbage at Fort Banks, but the megaphones seemed to remind him of the garbage cans, and he so persistently kept backing into them to be hitched up that we had to shoot him. But Pete's three years...