Word: porker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week caught the hiccups. For three nights its pen, in Birmingham, Ala., echoed with a silly incessant guffaw. Owner of the pig, one Joseph St. George, deprived of sleep, surveyed his eccentric porker. He ordered a large plate of "swill" to be brought. This the pig ate greedily and continued hiccupping. Mr. St. George whacked the pig's back with a trowel; still the idiotic grunts continued. Then Mr. St. George soaked the pig with ice cold water; no cure. At last Joseph St. George came with a little perfumed sponge which he pushed against...
...When he had convinced himself that his find was really ivory, the farmer tossed away his shovel, dashed for his Ford, and whirled off to Johnstown without a backward glance for his prostrate porker...
...father, a pork-packer, had started life with but a single pig, but so brilliantly had he manipulated that lone porker, that he had at length attained unto dizzying financial plenitude and a mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast. He had, moreover, a passion for cleanliness. In public life, he stood for: "Clean Water Supply (Prohibition!), Clean Education (Paul Revere's Ride!), Clean Literature (Pollyanna!), Clean Minds (belief in the stork...
Score, Harvard 31, Worcester 28. Baskets from floor, Gordon 5, Lowenthal 3, Miller 3, Berry 4, Sharpe 3, White 2, Whelpley, Higgins, Bittner. Baskets after fouls, Gordon 5, McLeish 4, Berry 4. Referees, Oswald Tower and James Porker. Time of halves, 20 minutes...