Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentine wits, who particularly like to poke fun at Chileans, promptly predicted a "Drunkards' Revolution...
...there. A discovery which may furnish a better method of controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris, director of research in Zululand. He found the tsetse fly sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture of veratrine and cocoanut oil. Applied to a live animal, this mixture killed the attacking fly immediately. Since there are great stretches of land in Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters are advocating that some of this area be set aside...
Captain Roland Molyneux-Loyal to the Empire waistline, the captain-couturier is even more Napoleonic in attempting to revive the poke bonnet, trimmed with fur, ostrich feathers, cock plumes. Lounging pyjamas are voluminous, trailing like a dress in back, trousered in front...
Though it is a well-established sport of the irreverent to poke fun at the policies and the purchases of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's painting department, there is one branch of the Metropolitan that needs to apologize to no one-the Department of Arms & Armor. Today the Metropolitan is fourth in importance in the world's armories. Ranking just after Vienna, Paris and Madrid it can elevate its ventail at Milan and the Tower of London. Last week the trustees of the Metropolitan unveiled a bronze tablet designed by Sculptor Daniel Chester French and dedicated...
...naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...