Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owner of the Shoreham Building is dapper, aggressive Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Shrewd at business as well as politics, Secretary Hurley, onetime mule boy in an Indian Territory mine, has been successfully leasing Shoreham office space to his G. 0. P. cronies. Last week he caught the best of all possible Republican tenants when President Hoover, in the name of Lawrence Richey, his detective-secretary, took a four-room suite to serve as a political watchtower overlooking the Democratic scene. Sooner or later wise Washingtonians expected to see this lettering on the door: HERBERT HOOVER, CONSULTING ENGINEER...
Near Walla Walla, Wash., one A. Snyder, Northern Pacific Railway Co. engineer, last fortnight saw a mule dead ahead between the tracks, ears laid back, eyes wide, legs braced. The brakes squealed, the mule stiffened, was catapulted off the track against a switch. The witch broke, the train ran off the rails, wrecking two cars. The mule trotted off ate grass...
When in Topeka the Vice President makes his home with his other sister, Mrs. Jerome A. Colvin, widow of a horse & mule dealer...
...never worked, because he left for Ilium too soon. On a time the young fellows used to take him out to course the wild goats, the deer, the hares: but now ?he lay derelict and masterless on the dung-heap before the gates, on the deep bed of mule-droppings and cow-dung which collected there till the serfs of Odysseus had time to carry it off for manuring his broad acres. So lay Argos the hound, all shivering with dog-ticks. Yet the instant Odysseus approached, the beast knew him. He thumped his tail and drooped his ears...
...elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...