Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth time, three minutes and 25 seconds later, its corkscrew tail straightened out rigid in death. After the gas was blown out and the pig removed, opinions remained divided. Most of the newspapermen spectators professed themselves horrified. Queasy Warden Court Smith confessed that he had turned his eyes away. But W. H. Rockingham of the State Department of Architecture...
Through diplomatic channels the Chamberlain-Hitler-Blum-Mussolini negotiations continued last week with the secrecy already publicly announced by His Majesty's Government. The London corps of correspondents, about as well informed last week as a group of orphan puppies, came tail-wagging to the Prime Minister, tendered him a birthday party. In high good humor, hawk-faced Neville Chamberlain, who at close range can be a very clubable man, shyly compared himself to a camel, citing a proverb which he said he thinks is Chinese: "One decrepit camel still bears the burden of many asses...
...Dawn Over, Ireland," the first picture completely produced and acted in the Emerald Isle is chiefly interesting for its realistic portrayal of the dark days following the Easter Rebellion of 1916, when the small Irish Republican Army was doggedly twisting the British Lion's tail. A trifle Algeresque, the plot tells how a young Irish patriot (Brian O'Sullivan), suspected of being an "informer" by his mates, is ostracised and in revenge joins the British "Black and Tans." A threatened raid on his former fellows brings him to his senses in time to warn them of it, and lead...
...last month jauntily flew 10,000 miles around South America. Dissatisfied with Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible, T. W. A. became sold on Boeing's idea of a big passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps' B-17 bomber, ordered six. Its weight, too, would be just within the "Big Five" agreement-42,672 lb. When this order became known T. W. A.'s competitors howled that the "spirit" of the agreement had been broken...
...through the waters of the Singatoka River by women and boys. When the net had been drawn in a small circle in shallow water, the tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front of the caudal fin. Thereupon each ugly shark went rigid, was put ashore never to move again...