Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blankly jabbering, the toothless, paunchy old man, 66, with closecropped hair, beady blue eyes, steelrimmed spectacles tied behind his bullet head, shuffles in carpet slippers every morning to the trusty building for breakfast, shuffles back to his studio in an old mule barn to work. He refuses to appear before the clemency board for a pardon. Summoned, he stops jabbering long enough to say he is better off in jail...
...squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders, blood oozing from their undressed wounds. The wife of the mule barn boss had crawled to safety in the cold boiler. The besieged had had no food for two days; they sipped dirty water from the boiler pipes. At any second they expected to be rushed from their stronghold by a massed attack of unionists, long enraged at their "scab" operation...
...Brothers Marx discovered the proper way of performing. Outside a theatre in Nacogdoches, Tex. where they were playing, a mule ran away and smashed a store. The audience deserted the Marx Brothers to watch the mule. When the audience returned, the Marxes, indignant, burlesqued their act. The audience was delighted. At Abilene, Kan., a manager cancelled their bookings. Put off a train which they had boarded without money, they walked to the next town. Harpo borrowed his first red wig. The Marx Brothers again burlesqued their act. By the time they reached Oklahoma City they were rich enough to stay...
...slope slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts poured in from all over the world." In New Orleans, at a mass meeting demanding electric instead of mule railways, posters read: "Lincoln set the Negroes free. Sprague has set the Mule free...
...join me in an organization to be known as the 'Liquor Drinkers of America,' that we get together immediately and act at once before it is too late. All are eligible as members who drink at any time any of the following: Corn liquor, rye, barley, white mule, gin, moonshine, or any of the other excellent brands. . . ." It is reported to me that Mr. Bradford's organization has had unprecedented growth. . . . NELSON T. LEVINGS...