Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Getting his goat" originated on the turf. Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for stall-mate. Turf crooks long ago found that few things will upset a horse more than to ''get his goat" (take it away) the night before the race...
...City of Chicago lies in the County of Cook, which county is a corporate entity of no small importance. It has 4,000 employes; it spends $19,000,000 per annum. Both items have become an embarrassment. Last week the county treasurer announced that there was $125,000 in the treasury and a payroll of $450,000 due on Sept. 20. Probably Cook County will pay with i. o. u.'s. Cause of the difficulty: optimism about tax receipts. The county budget expected the county treasury to perform the following addition...
Maurice Maeterlinck, 67, Belgian poet, explained to the Revue Beige why he has lived in France most of his life: "If I had remained in Belgium, I should have become a 'miserable macrobite' among the small bourgeois who surrounded me. Belgium professed, at the time when I lived there, a deep hatred of letters. Men who had talent found themselves up against things unless they gave up their art. It was only toward 1880 that things began to change...
...Telluride bank. He filled out these drafts for large, round figures, presented them to the Chase bank for Chase certification. Inasmuch as a certified check has always been considered the closest possible relative to actual coin of the realm, the certification of these drafts was a matter of no small moment. But the Chase cashier did not hesitate, for only the day before the Chase bank had received from six other Manhattan banks instructions to hold for the Bank of Telluride credits amounting to $500,000. The six Manhattan banks, in turn, had received wires from their six Denver correspondents...
...family of the nations, when each will give according to its ability and receive according to its needs, when war among them will be as absurd as it would now be for members of this congress to begin mur dering one another,? this will be due in no small measure to co-operation among scientific men of all nations in their com mon work...