Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known by his friends to have a prodigious memory. Recently he took a test, remembered all details of the most complicated timetables, thousands of dates and telephone numbers, the population of every parish in Italy; he knew the bandmaster and the march of every regiment, the name of every mule in the Italian Army...
...crippled. Yes, and no. German shells tore him to pieces and he has gone through probably more hospitals in search of benefits to his general health than any other man. Crippled? Yes, a little physically, but stronger than horseradish and more healthy than a Missouri mule when it comes to mentality...
...Wiser They Are. Bruce Ingram had an uncanny fascination for women. They buzzed about him like gnats on a Mississippi mule. When he came home from Europe he was pursued all the way to his apartment by a Junoesque married lady. "How did it happen?" asked his friend...
...week wore on, the swarms grew thicker. They swept through Mississippi, into Arkansas and Louisiana. Hordes of the stinging females would select a mule or cow, settle on it, ride out its frantic, bucking efforts to escape, and leave it dead. Reports began to come in: 125 mules killed in Coahoma County alone. There two days later were 400 mules and cattle dead. Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward...
...Olympia, Wash, last week, Governor Roland H. Hartley vetoed the latest bill for a horse-cleaning of his State. Officially he wrote: "This bill says a mule is a horse. ... A horse might make a jackass out of itself, as did certain members of the present State Senate, but I would still be unwilling to convert a State Senator into a jackass by legislative enactment. This would be unfair to the jackass...