Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five minutes later the Music researcher is in the teletype room with a memorandum for the printers. "MUSIC MUST CORRECTION. PICKLED PIG'S FEET. PARA 3, SENTENCE BEGINNING ONE DAY WHEN HE WAS STILL A STEVEDORE, CHANGE EBENEZER MAITLAND SMITH TO EBENEZER MORTIMER SMITH...
...hard bitten Guardia Civil, his frontier and highway guards. He was for seven years Minister of the Interior under Spain's late Dictator, Primo de Rivera (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929), suppressed Communists and Anarchists in Barcelona with such vigor that they retaliated by nicknaming him. "The Epileptic Pig." His nature has not softened...
...through dense jungle for the Penal Colony. A peg-legged convict killed a comrade for his can of condensed milk, and the leader in turn killed him. They roasted and ate his liver and his good left leg, of which Belbenoit confesses that one mouthful (which tasted like wild pig) was enough...
...When a reporter once asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...
Other animated cartoons have heroes as bold as the Prince, as resourceful as Mickey or the sensible little pig. Other animated cartoons present portents cataclysmic as the Wolf's house-flattening puffing, physical violence as severe as the heroic bartering Donald Duck undergoes in Modern Inventions. But whereas Popeye's inevitable fight at the finale is almost inevitably cruel, grotesque and ugly, the worst beating ever handed out in a Disney film-the "pacifying" the big wolf gets in Three Little Wolves-somehow manages to be as charming, as delightfully inventive, as it is deserved...