Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first returns began coming in, Candidate Camp ran a pathetic third. Swooping along in first place with the votes of his farmer friends, to whom he had promised "40 acres and a mule," was wild-eyed, unbrushed, gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, former (1933-37) Governor. In second place by the early counts, but running strong, was the Purge-marked incumbent, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George. Before the later, urban returns showed the election's true trend, Candidate Talmadge & friends began to celebrate loudly. "The only way George or his supporters could carry Georgia," Mr. Talmadge announced, "would...
...Boston Curtis, Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. Boston Curtis was elected. Milton's Mayor Kenneth Simmons, a Democrat, chortled hugely. He, who had sponsored Candidate Curtis and filed his papers, had proved his point that voters "have no idea whom they support." Boston Curtis is a large brown mule...
...fateful collision with a large log was narrowly missed as the mule pack was picking its way across a furious rapids at the brink of a huge waterfall. The log was thundering down directly towards the mule currying the finest lot of Dryopid water beetles ever taken in the West Indies, when it suddenly struck the head of a man-eating crocodile which was about to attack the practice and swerved to the left, missing the mule by five-eighths of an inch...
Last year Douglas G. Hertz of Rockleigh, N. J., a millionaire horseman, founded the Pegasus Club of New Jersey for horse enthusiasts. To Anna's party last week he invited 15 proletarian nags and one mule. In favor hats (with holes for their ears), looking as giddy as tipsy old maids on New Year's Eve, the horses munched carrots and greens, then champed into a heavily iced birthday cake. Afterward Anna was awarded a special hat-lavender with an ostrich feather-as the most glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service...
...Grant Shepherd arrived with his mother, four sisters, two brothers, various relatives, two nurses, a doctor, four dogs. His father was manager of the ancient silver mines whose 70 miles of workings honeycombed the hills. The family had come overland from Washington, D. C., by train, wagon and pack mule, to make their home in Batopilas...