Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after a hot summer had thinned the deep snows, two employes of a mountain resort hotel set out on mule-back. High up on volcanic Cerro del Plomo (Hill of Lead) they found the wreckage sticking out of shallow drifts. Some of the nine scattered bodies were decapitated; all were well preserved in their shrouds of snow...
...panorama painting of an army on the march. Songs in Wonder Bar are superior to those which Al Jolson sang in its stage version in Manhattan four years after he made the first successful talkie. The Jazz Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin on the canebrake to a night club in Paradise with Gabriel performing on a saxophone. Like other recent Warner Brothers productions. Wonder Bar contains...
...profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad ten years after the War was over...
...money to buy a farm on the Missouri River which he called Potato Hill. At Potato Hill he promptly resumed his marathon of printed discontent in E. W. Howe's Monthly. Ed Howe wrote his magazine in illegible longhand. One of its first advertisements, for a horse, mule and donkey liniment, appeared regularly for 22 years...
...first difficulty that had to be faced was the repression of an instinct to pick the whole of the West Point team and let it go at that. For it is no mean task to find a team better than that which represented the Army mule, except, of course Notre Dame. It is doubtful whether the Army struck up as fast a pace as it did against Harvard but after all, the judging is done on the basis of games played here and with that in mind it is difficult to imagine a much smoother running machine than the Cadet...