Word: mulish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trustees refused to countenance even a temporary exhibition at the Library. So the Fulop patrons, acting anonymously through some attorneys named Saul, shipped the work to a Manhattan gallery, anticipated critical applause which, they hoped, would shame their mulish townsmen...
...Presidio in San Francisco, last week draped upon Arizona and then saluted. While the men marched by him, Arizona, little knowing that he had committed "valor under fire," but doubtless remembering many a whack on the behind in the days when he dragged a field gun, rolled a mulish eye at Brigadier-General Frank C. Bolles and mulishly munched carrots...
...Story* jolts off down the clay ruts of Lane County, Tennessee - stretches of crowded, stumbling action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money...
...fickle Tiger went wild and made a big killing on Saturday, the Army mule balked in more than mulish obstinacy, a Boston college back missed a crucial goal after touchdown, and three of Joe Forecast's predictions collapsed without a murmur. Such trifling disasters as these, however, hardly ruffled the calm surface of his self-satisfaction, for he had defied a legion of sport editors, the table of comparative scores and the whole city of Providence in picking Harvard to win, and by the margin of three points is his prediction justified...
Mules never leave their subterranean coal-faced galleries except when their masters, the operators, expect long idleness. When, therefore, it was observed that most of the mulish multitude had been brought to the surface (including the mules of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., whose head, Samuel D. Warriner, is also head of the Anthracite Operators Association), the implication was obvious...