Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually takes weeks for my subscription copy of TIME to find its way here by railroad, truck and mule train; the last mail brought your Sept. 24 issue with John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s story. The following day one of our students died of typhoid fever. In her class, I heard the teacher comforting her pupils with the words you quoted from Laura Spelman Rockefeller, "Children are my precious jewels -loaned me for a season to be handed back when the call comes." Even here in this small town the good works of the Rockefeller bounty is felt. Unaware...
...unusual. Caught up in the passions of the era, the Northern Copperhead papers no less than the Southern press called Abraham Lincoln names that for venomous variety have been unsurpassed before or since in editorial tirades against a President-"The Ape,'' "Simple Susan," "Kentucky Mule," "Illinois Beast," "traitor," "lowborn, despicable tyrant," "cringing, crawling creature...
There last week, as fast as they could fill their boat-shaped baskets with the honeycombs of tiny black Pinot grapes, the harvesters spilled them into mule-drawn carts. At Montrachet -whose wine, said Dumas, "ought to be drunk kneeling, with head bared"-around Beaune, at Meursault, Romanee-Conti, Vougeot and Gevrey-Chambertin-each hillside as famous in France as any of Napoleon's battlefields, it was the same. Off went the grapes, the best first, to be pressed in cellars at the foot of each small field. From the vats within these reeking temples of Bacchus rose...
...went in the back way--by the ladies entrance--and, passing a color portrait of President Pusey, were led up to the second floor. "Our" room had in it two moose, two mule deer, an elk, and cocktails. WHRB had also arrived. The bartender asked if we were 21 and the bear sniggered...
Work like a mule...