Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the Red Square in a solid, seemingly endless phalanx more than 100 ft. wide. At sight of Dictator Stalin, who wore a Red Army cap and bluish grey "semimilitary jacket" (said Moscow papers), each new group of workers burst into "spontaneous cheers." Just at dusk the parade's tail was brought up by a Soviet dirigible which had flown during the day from Leningrad to Moscow...
...this sort of unmannerly exuberance be reconciled with the fact that suits are de rigeur in eastern classrooms, that formal dress means white tie and tail coat on most eastern campi, that exclusive prep schools furnish a majority of the entering undergraduates...
...mile Pan American Airways, able young President Juan Terry Trippe struck the last remaining legend of railway route last week. About his entire system, which coils like a python around South America, slithers across the islands of the Caribbean and flicks all Central America with its tail, a U. S. salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles of route, of Campania Nacional Cubana de Aviation...
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...Manhattan, near the Central Park Zoo, another hobo suggested to Ludwig Metterer that they "go over to the elephant house and have some fun." They yanked Elephant Chang's tail. Elephant Chang trumpeted loudly. Arrested for disorderly conduct, Ludwig Metterer denied the charge, said his companion (who escaped) had offered to teach him how to pull elephant's tails...