Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...
...cruel nicking operation is authenticated by Bulletin No. 262 of the Humane Association and by Secretary John E. Cowden of the Jockey Club. The New York Veterinary Hospital says that in nicking an incision is usually made on top as well as beneath the horse's tail, that the operation need not necessarily be painful, that the chief discomfort is caused by the horse's inability to use his tail to brush off flies. Sometimes the operation does not have to be repeated, but the horse must wear his brace when not on show...
...callous a breach of contract. ... It is almost unthinkable that Washington would repudiate the letter and spirit of the gold contracts in these bonds." Mocked the Financial News: "Iowa and the farmers at large are in the legislative saddle and Roosevelt can but paddle along holding on to the tail." British editors broadly hinted that if the U. S. could default on its gold bonds, Britain could, with equal impunity, default on its gold War debt. Internal & External. President Roosevelt was not sufficiently disturbed by these attacks on U. S. honor to make public retort. Most U. S. citizens were...
...With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work on an animated cartoon cinema with sound & dialog synchronized. Its hero was first named Mortimer Mouse, its leading lady Minnie. Mortimer soon became Mickey, an accurately cartooned mouse with a mouse's four fingers, an inert tail, and a trick of lolling out its tongue. Hollywood turned down the finished product. It was first exhibited modestly in September, 1928 at a small Manhattan theatre. A week later it was jamming the Roxy. Walt Disney's struggles were over. Mickey Mouse's had just begun...
Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...