Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match this from the other side of the war, United Pressman Reynolds Packard cabled "My greatest scare of the Spanish War" from Rightist-captured Bilbao. During the Rightist advance "I flopped down behind the first shelter I saw-a fat pig which was sleeping against a tree." cabled Mr. Packard. "I must have snuggled too closely for the pig's comfort, because suddenly it reared up, grunted and started to waddle away...
...grabbed at the pig's tail, caught it and held on as tight as I could. Then the tail slipped out of my hands, and my barricade went squealing away...
...Kahble, inserted an advertisement under his name in the Daily Princetonian offering a free ride in a Lincoln phaeton to the Yale game in New Haven which drew 50 replies, were finally exposed when Ephraim di Kahble advertised in the New York Times for an orange-&-black guinea pig...
...successful British politicians know how to make a virtue of retreat. Next day a contrite Prime Minister rose to his feet, declared: "I do not think I have ever been inclined to show a pig-headed obstinacy." Neville Chamberlain withdrew his tax. He said that Treasury experts were working on a "simpler" corporate profits levy...
Achilles is a Cornell pig, neurotic pet of that university's Prof. Howard Scott Liddell. Prof. Liddell taught Achilles to get an apple by lifting the lid of a box with his snout when he heard a buzzer. Sometimes the coveted apple was missing. Such disappointments put Achilles in such a mental state that he could not make up his mind to try for the apple at all. This was as truly a nervous breakdown as any human being ever suffered, said Prof. Liddell. Achilles "would lay his snout on the cover of the box, close his eyes...