Word: rabbited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart tricks are in the Dartmouth bag: a triple pass, executed with the polish of a fortune-teller's shuffle; criss-cross plays that befuddled the Harvard backs as much as if they had seen Halfback Oberlander (Dartmouth) take a rabbit out of his helmet. Dark fell before Harvard's last frantic forward pass slipped through groping butterfingers to the ground. Score: Dartmouth 32, Harvard...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
...farmer's son, instead, of leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced...
...automobile driver arrested for almost running over the President on a Washington street (TIME, Sept. 28) was fined $35. Said he: "A gross injustice has been done me. I have driven for six years and never harmed even a chicken or a rabbit. My record is clean, and I have been humiliated and insulted by the Government, not for any wrong, but because I thought the signal of a kiddish' looking Secret Service man was the prank of a small boy, I missed the President by twenty feet...
...Herds of wild horses watched the party as it passed, galloping away in a billowing cloud of dust if the automobiles paused. Running with one of these herds was a lone mule. Here and there lay the dismembered bodies of colts slain by cougars. Now and again a jack rabbit would scamper across the trail. Towards night the distant yelping of coyotes was audible...