Word: ox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife (Isak Dinesen) for one incident, when she flew unarmed at two lions that had attacked an ox, lashed them into the jungle with a stock whip...
Latest reports from the Federal headquarters of the Northwest Territory Celebration indicate that the ox-team party which left Ipswich, Massachusetts, early in December, is lost or has been scalped in the Pennsylvania mountains...
...this was oratorical bombast it was not so received. For several days denials and reiterations flew back and forth. The Attorney General began an investigation. Last week, recriminations produced results. Swarthy, heavy-jowled, ox-shaped General Saturnine Cedillo, Minister of Agriculture and last Conservative remaining in the Cárdenas cabinet, resigned...
...will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing; And here she stands, touch her whoever dare; I'll bring my action on the proudest he That stops my way in Padua...
...spring of 1833, Peter Pindar Pease of Vermont joggled west in an ox-cart with his wife and five children to become the first settler in Oberlin, Ohio, where a group of missionaries to the Choctaws had staked out 500 acres for a town and college. The town of Oberlin celebrated the centennial of Peter Pindar Pease's arrival four years ago. Oberlin College, which in 1837 admitted U. S. women to a degree-granting institution for the first time, intends to celebrate this year the centennial of U. S. higher education for women. Last week it began...