Word: ox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week at Cyrene, while Benito Mussolini was reviewing a procession of Mohammedans who rumbled past in their peasant ox carts, cheers caused an ox to break over the traces, and bellowing it charged Il Duce. Italo Balbo and other Fascist bigwigs flung themselves upon the ox, twisting it over by the horns and holding it prostrate, sitting on its head until peasants ran up with ropes, hobbled the ox's feet. Scowling, the Dictator watched. Himself a peasant, he then scathingly reproved the peasant owner of the ox in choice Italian argot for being such a numbskull...
...named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, N. Y. was probably...
...Ox warble (a pest...
...Mexico if they can help it and who cover vast acres of plaster with humorless protests against the bitter plight of the masses. Artist Hidalgo hates parties, is intensely serious, neither drinks nor smokes, works ten hours a day, owns only one suit of clothes, and has traveled by ox cart, automobile and burro in every state in the Federation studying the Indians of his land. Professionally he is a humorist. His little wax figures, never more than six inches high, are shown in box frames of glittering tin that the artist makes himself. They have little or no social...
...Father Key. "I ought to know my own son." But even a father's word was not enough for U. C. L. A. Dean Earl J. Miller who forthwith set out for Texas, home of the Keys, to straighten out the case. At Amarillo he found an Earl ("Ox"') Key, Southern Methodist star ten years ago, who insisted that U. C. L. A.'s Key was "Ted" Key all right and he should know because he was his brother. Then another Robert F. Key turned up who claimed he was a cousin...