Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls for the picture from their patrons, it appeared that some 50-odd circuit and third-run theatres will be showing the picture in New York during the week preceding the election. It seemed that in marching on, TIME had inadvertently stepped on the Tammany tiger's tail...
...anybody else whom Mr. Landon wishes to draw into the elephant's paddock in the next few years. A renaissance of the Republican party can occur only when and if Jumbo can get down to business and stop the tempting but childish political pastime of twisting the donkey's tail...
...Religion the TAIL...
Like a great prehistoric alligator the City of Chicago suns its giant body along 35 mi. of Lake Michigan's western shore. From the city's fanlike tail to the south, from its huge bulbous head to the north and from many a populous suburb is pumped centreward a seldom ceasing stream of traffic, most of which flows into Chicago's chief north & south artery, Michigan Avenue. In the heart of the city the stream congests & clots, to the extreme unhappiness of all motoring Chicagoans...
Poets want to take truth by the hand; prophets want to get truth by the tail. A hybrid of poet and prophet is tomahawk-faced Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative...