Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff war, Old Guardsmen, led by Generalissimo Reed Smoot, chairman of the Finance Committee, had stormed the redoubt of the Democratic-Progressive Republican coalition with a demand for a higher sugar rate. The fighting was fierce and confused, with troopers switching from side to side like the tail of a fly-bitten horse. When the lines were reformed and counted, it was found that the Old Guard had been repulsed...
...seeing the scars of War are employes at the U. S. Pension Bureau. But last week they looked, and looked at a face such as few of them had ever seen. Across the forehead was branded a huge double eagle, the wing tips reaching to the temples, the tail running half way down the nose. Beneath the branded eagle, faintly discernible, was the outline of a huge spider...
...What is that which is fourfooted, three-footed and two-footed?" That horrendous bogey, the ancient Theban Sphinx, who had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird, ate up the Thebans who could not guess her riddle.* Smart Oedipus answered her: Man, who goes on allfours as a baby, on two legs as an adult, on two legs and a cane in old age. Whereupon the vexed Sphinx threw herself from a mountain...