Word: tail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Otto Kafka, student flyer, spun the propeller of his plane without blocking the wheels. As the plane sailed over his head Kafka grabbed the tail, was carried dangling in the air to a height of five feet where he dropped to the ground. After a few gyrations the plane crashed...
...ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull. This judgment, if you are not lulled to sleep by a series of marches and countermarches in boudoir land, is open to dispute. For despite its tail coats, pajamas and cocktails, the play is a pungent pastry out of the same sort of oven as produced the Restoration comedies...
...porcupines. When the Ruhe trucksters unloaded one slatted crate its inmate, a zebra, kicked, crashed its head against the slats, stared wildly, piteously about. The ever-watchful American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at once ordered the animal's release. One booth contained the famed Tail Waggers Club (TIME, Nov. n), which offered a dog ensemble, complete from military brushes to overcoat, to the most popular dog in the show, to be decided by public vote. Lord Baltimore, a pekingese. won the outfit. Agents were professionally addressed as pigeon-men, cat-men, fish-men. The pigeon...
...have been cold at the Harvard-Yale game a week ago Saturday, but it had nothing on the Boston College-Holy Cross affair played the day before yesterday in Fenway Park, the regular domicile of the tail-end Red Sox. There was a freezing blast sweeping the length of the gridiron which made it extremely difficult for the players to hold on to the ball and for the spectators to convince themselves that they really gave a hoot who won the game. The specs got pretty badly fooled by the weather conditions, good seats in the middle of the field...
...Yale mascot is a bulldog. Thereby hangs a tail...