Word: ox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as Appanoose Jim to his fellow bullies of Idaho hard-rock camps and Oregon loggeries, has been at pains to set down these important American chronicles in their pristine vernacular and without any improvements of his own. When he states that Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue-eyed ox, measured 42 axe-handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between the horns, no patriotic American will doubt the measurement for a second. When it is told how the great logger fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood On Its Head in the Dakota...
...heart as big as an ox...
...proprietor of the puppet show, an Italian with a heart as big as an ox, and perhaps a head of the same quality, marries an elfin, wistful sprite of a wife a few minutes before charging off to war. On his return, he is deaf from the conflict, enabling his wife to carry on her languishing conversations with her ad interim lover...
...Socialists and Communists took place in Paris at two meetings. At one, Millionaire Deputy Leon Blum, Socialist, was hit in the face by a wine glass and knocked practically senseless. Several of M. Blum's colleagues were also roughly treated. A Communist, armed with the legbone of an ox, stamped around the meeting room, shouted that he wanted "the whole world to bleed...
...real reason for writing is to say how much I appreciate TIME after several months' reading of it. I am amused occasionally at some of the criticisms of other subscribers- the most amusing being those by someone whose ox has apparently been gored. I do not recall any weekly magazine, or monthly, either, for that matter, which has ever given so good a digest of current news, except, in a measure, The Independent, a number of years ago when it ran a weekly department of about eight pages in which it digested the week's news, but even...