Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average mule would take great pleasure in walking on the "bed" or row should he find his driver wanted him to walk elsewhere. However it would be impractical and unnecessary to drive friend mule atop the bed to plow up surplus cotton...
...only son. Across the plains and mountains from a farm in fat Missouri went hawk-nosed George Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia stock. His mines, ranches, banks, race horses and friends were one of the greatest collection ever made even in old California. He also owned...
...Inez, Ky., John Mills choked his mother to death in a religious ceremony, went to jail. During the Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent...
...since the night of Feb. 15 when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate and politics. A favorite candidate around the stockyards, he rose to be President of the Cook County Commissioners. His defeat of Republican William Hale...
...king is the turning point of the entire performance, and it is his sense of humor that seems to be the clue to the whole tenor of the play. Those mild little replies of his which carry the kick of a mule and the sly smile that puts him beyond the reach of the bellowings of the dictator, and the outbursts of the queen, vary considerably in their effectiveness. This is not due to failure in performance, but rather to the fact that Sherwood has drawn his point too fine for maintained effectiveness...