Word: nag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Cabby Hartmann, who once owned a prosperous livery stable, found himself and wife reduced to penury and possessed of no business capital except a 35-year-old cab and Grassmus, his 13-year-old nag. Desperate, "Iron Gustav" resolved to recoup his fortunes by setting out for Paris, a 665-mile drive, selling postcards to the curious along the way, and displaying a sign which read...
...human mind, playwrights have reveled in the possibilities of Jeff's suddenly out-mutting Mutt. Not the least amusing of such fancies is this film in which Finch, the browbeaten, stumbles into an experiment in hypnotism and emerges Mr. Finch, brow-beater. Whereas his wife used to nag him, his son jeer at him, his boss sit on him, he now throws china at the picture of his wife's first husband, thrashes his son, bullies his boss, roars like a lion, and kicks the bleating lambs of whom he was once the gentlest...
...Magazine," Beau, which interlarded "The Secret of Making Good Coffee" by George Moore, a haberdashery and gifts-for-women page, theatre talk, an excellent London book letter by J. Middleton Murray, a dull Shaw interview, a note on bridge and a note on the return to Manhattan of nag-drawn victorias, all of which somewhat offset a nude story by Paul Morand, a discussion of Broadway females, some "daring" art work and a letter-the original of which is possessed by the U. S. State Department-to a Man with "a violent natural inclination" which no medicine will diminish...
...speed-the rhythm of a piece of sculpture; the style of a racing thoroughbred; the bright, scrupulous cruelty of an accomplished boxer. It has been proved a thousand times that neither this speed nor the grace that is its afterglow has much to do with efficiency-that the clumsy nag can often travel fastest, the hardest hitter win-but men persist in betting on good form. This was illustrated one damp evening last spring in a Manhattan boxing ring (TIME, June...
...discussion ambled along; listeners caught, in its labored periods, the clip-clop of slow hoofs, the rattle of a dry axle, saw, in the rutted lane of the imagination, a buggy swaying along with reins pulling slack from the hands of a threadbare, weary man who followed where his nag took him- down the lane, away from the sombre fields, the farmhouses smelling of disinfectant, toward the city. . . . There was, the physicians agreed, a general shortage of country doctors. Reasons? The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life." Said Dr. Elias P. Lyon, Dean of the University...