Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shake of a sheep's tail Boss Curry Hipped out the name of his man, telephoned him to hump himself to the Garden to receive the nomination...
...typical Tory tirades." Example: frosty Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, warmed up to the point of flaying Free Trader Lloyd George for his recent attacks on the tariff results of the Ottawa Conference thus: "Even if a cat is pulled out of the cream jug by the tail, as was Lloyd George, that is no reason why it should spit in the cream...
...West Point game and just before the epic Crimson-Blue clash, has had one touchdown scored on it in every game thus far, although it has piled up a total of 71 points against its opponents' 18. Its last victim was little Maine, which came out on the tail end of a 32-6 score. The Crusaders will meet Brown the week before they travel to Cambridge, so there will be plenty of room for a comparison of scores, but so far the Hely Cross players have not shown much on which their standing could be very exactly rated...
Last season a jaunty Wildcat aggregation advanced on Cambridge confident of scoring at least once, but it went back to the hills with its tail twisted into knots to the tune of 35-0. This year a team admittedly inferior to the last one is coming to Harvard with no illusions about the task ahead of it, and consequently is more likely to accomplish something...
...corner of the municipal pump-house a 10-in. garter snake entangled in a spider web. How the snake got in its predicament neither Foreman Davis nor anyone else knew. Next day Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...