Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother-in-law, after which sympathetic younger painters added a few words of their own. Excerpts: "Once America reflected movements in European art 25 years afterwards; now it is Europe that reflects us 25 years later. . . . Modern Paris art has entered a vicious circle, walking around & around like a mule at a well. . . . Mexican mural painting . . . has reached much nearer the masses...
...sedan chair, as befitted the ruler of the Indian state in which the grove of Sipi is situated. To make the rural expedition bearable for the Rana and his guests, the princes from neighboring hill states, an enormous amount of paraphernalia had been carried over mountains by mule and coolie. This included three sofas, a dozen overstuffed chairs, 100 straight chairs, tents, doormats, 50 small tables complete with luncheon service, and two Victorian hatracks...
...people of Paris," wrote François Rabelais in the 16th Century, "are so foolish by nature that a juggler, a pardon-peddler, a mule with bells . . . will gather a bigger crowd than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and pardon-peddlers were gathering one of the biggest, strangest crowds in French history-a throng of U.S. expatriates, fleeing the New World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes...
...A.G.R.S. recovery teams soon found that they had to become rivermen, mountain climbers, explorers, bush diplomats and detectives. A.G.R.S. men, almost one-third of them Chinese-Americans, went out in groups of from three to ten. They traveled by jeep, mule, native pony, oxcart, sampan or on foot, were almost always supplied by air. Some of them headed west of Chungking toward Tibet, and into mountain country which no white man had ever explored. Others battled leech-ridden jungles and flooded rivers; one group swam a swollen stream to find the bodies of a B-29 crew, swam back, pushing...
...Star for the Government. U.S. Steel made Carpenter move even faster. He promptly rounded up his old Lone Star Steel associates-ranchers, oilmen, bankers. There was Robert L. Thornton, the boisterous, robust president of Dallas' third largest (Mercantile National) bank. Once a sharecropper, Thornton describes himself as "a mule in carriage harness," has pushed through some notable projects (e.g., a 33-story skyscraper erected in Dallas during the war) with the exhortation: "Put on the collar and hamestring...