Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even scuttle a ship properly!" Laughing, the reporters filed down to the Secretary's blue-carpeted, leather-chaired reception room, watched him enter in excellent spirits. Hour and a half earlier he had released texts of his answers to the German and Italian protests, couching his Tennessee-mule-kick "No" in stilted diplomatic language. He had little to say, but his eyes twinkled: after eight years of sadness over U.S. apathy and humiliation at Axis hands, the old mountaineer was getting a little of his own back...
There was loud-mouthed Henry Comstock, called "Old Pancake" because he practically lived on flapjacks. There were Eilley and Lemuel Sanford ("Sandy") Bowers, she a boardinghouse keeper, he an illiterate mule skinner. They had a 20-ft. claim on the richest part of the lode, and at one time were taking $18,000 a week out of it. They built a mansion with solid silver doorknobs, made a trip to Europe to get furniture, tried to get an interview with Queen Victoria...
...Marin urged Puerto Ricans to distrust all politicians, including himself. There are 786 election districts in Puerto Rico, and he preached that inspiring message in more than 500 of them. Some of these districts are high in the mountains, and he had to travel on foot or by mule to ask the poverty-stricken natives, the jibaros, to vote for him but also to watch him like a hawk. A masterly stump speaker with a square frame and a black mustache which makes him look like an amiable desperado, Muñoz Marin would tell cheering crowds...
...hidden gold mines, and though Scotty has gone through a lot of money, Banker Gerard has never seen any of it. Last week in Los Angeles court he sued for his share. Scotty, affable and fanciful as ever for all of 65 years and a gleaming shiner ("A mule kissed me," he explained), spun a fine yarn of a hillside currency cache which unhappily washed away when the rains came. The judge tolerantly termed him "a confessed cheat," observed that here was one hick who had trimmed city slickers. Broker Gerard, still friendly enough with Scotty to shake hands, hoped...
...Remount does not have to worry about the breed of the hybrid mule ("no pride of ancestry, no hope of posterity"). It finds the usual breeds good enough, buys the best in sight...