Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee Cermak as an individual aroused no great enthusiasm among the electorate. He was just somebody to "beat Thompson." From a mule boy in Illinois coal mines, he had climbed up through the trucking business to be Chicago's Democratic boss. His campaign was quiet, dignified, uninspiring. He always referred to Thompson as "His Honor," used no epithets, refused to stunt for the crowds. Behind him he had a unified Democracy and uncounted thousands of Republicans sick of "Big Bill...
...kernels of corn for the hungry child, the drippings from the mouth of the merciful mule! . . . These people are going to suffer beyond the power of human language to portray. . . . When did these picayunish objections to feeding the hungry first appear? They appeared when the income tax payers became afraid of an increase in taxes...
...Alaskan huskies with Roofer McHugh, fed them about 50 Ib. of meat three times a week. Elephants eat the most. They need at least a $2.50 bale of hay every day. Living in Roofer McHugh's stable last week were an unemployed boxing kangaroo, four elephants, five ponies, one mule, 33 dogs, three monkeys...
...damp morning last week, ten U. S. Marines with a roll of telephone wire rode on mule-back along a narrow road under the shadow "of towering, jungle-clad mountains near the Honduras border. Their job was to repair a telephone wire that somebody had cut during the night, their only thought was to finish the job and get back to barracks before lunch. Near a straggling corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months...
About noon a frightened Nicaraguan farmer arrived at Marine headquarters at Ocotal babbling that a massacre was taking place. While he talked a mule belonging to one of the wiring party galloped riderless down the village street. A rescue party was rushed to the scene. Of the ten Marines, only two were living. The dead men had been hacked .to pieces with machetes, their rifles, shirts and shoes stolen. Eleven dead Nicaraguans were sprawled nearby...