Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Turn Bull, Tenn., a boy named Art Lankford stepped out of the old log schoolhouse and walked up the hill a ways and caught hold of the tail of a bull yearling, the young bull started to run, they both landed in the old schoolhouse in books hours...
...dinner. Between broadcasts Mrs. Harold Keller, wife of the New York American correspondent, skipped rope. Mrs. Charles Poletti, wife of the Governor's counsel, won a set of towels by finding more peanuts (39) than anyone else. Mrs. Glenn Green, wife of a United Pressman, pinned a tail closest to the rump of a Democratic donkey, gloated: "That's female United Press accuracy...
...stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before the Macon faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain to all aboard was the fact that the Navy's last dirigible was rapidly going to pieces in midair. No. 2 gas cell popped open, then No. 9. Girders began snapping like so many pretzels. One rudder gave way and the whole stern seemed to crumple like...
...unicorn of fable was a fierce, creature with the head and body of a horse, the hind legs of an antelope, the tail of a lion or horse, a long sharp horn growing from its forehead. In the Authorized Version of the Old Testament unicorns are mentioned four times; in the Revised Version the Hebrew word, R'ēm, is translated "wild ox." During the Middle Ages the belief was prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this...
...wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia, which Mme Dali herself explained as "excessive fondness for dead bodies." Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere. Some of the men wore tail coats, no trousers. One woman came naked from the waist up, was hastily removed. Wrote society reporters: "It was all cockeyed, terribly amusing and just about the most sophisticated party of the year." Said Mme Dali: "It was an experiment to see how far the American people would respond...