Word: snorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Motors and leader of many a potent pool in the Coolidge bull market. Broker Block would often take huge selling orders from Bear Livermore over one telephone while Bull Durant was on another wire to place huge buying orders. To customers he thought were wrong he would snort: "You're throwing your money away"?and take the order...
Visitors at the sea lion pool in London's Zoo may now drop a sixpence in a slot to obtain the following result: a newly-devised tower, equipped with traveling chain and trigger, sounds a klaxon, hurls out a fat herring to make the sea lions snort and scramble...
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...Yarmouth, Minn., walking through the woods, Keith Grey, farmer, blew his nose. A neighbor mistook the sound for a deer's snort, shot Farmer Grey in the neck...
...Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus' enclosure. With a snort of rage, Big Nick charged his prostrate keeper, trampled him, gored him with short, sharp horns. One John Downey, visitor at the zoo, heard Keeper Mott's screams, picked up rocks and an iron bar, fought the blue gnu through the bars until the man could be dragged...