Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high, she holds her plump neck punctiliously arched, lifts her hoofs in a gait which is higher, slower and shorter in stride than that of a standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots of red wool to accent the curve of her neck. In her stall she shows traces of the nervousness which is noticeable in all progeny of her mother. She regards all small objects as likely to be edible...
Revolution in Paraguay last week was No. 7. Student-patriots banged shut their books. Radical workmen threw down their tools. Down the broad, bright streets of Asuncion they marched, an ugly cat-calling mob, to pull the political tail of Paraguay's sleek, feline President Jose Guggiari...
...week's end St. Gandhi departed for Eton to address the pink-cheeked, tail-coated Sixth Form...
...picture of a stuffed dodo (TIME, Sept. 14, p. 40) is, to the writer's untrained eye, much like a stuffed restoration of the dodo which is prominently displayed in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh bird differs from the Iowa reproduction principally in having a feathered tail instead of the cottontail effect, the coloring is apparently somewhat more uniform and there are slight differences above the eyes. Why then can Iowa claim "the only Stuffed replica in the world of the dodo?". . . L. L. NETTLETON Pittsburgh, Pa. There is also a reconstructed dodo in the American Museum...
Today sociology is leaving the sequestered backwaters of the classroom for open sea. Simmons students of sociology are hopeful that a tete-a-tete with the striking longshoremen of Boston will prove an enlarging experience for all concerned. Following at the tail of this scheme comes the opening of a love clinic by the sociology department of Northwestern University. The head of the department will endeavor to light the way of unhappy lovers whose full moon has waned. In the cause of science he hopes to learn a trick or two himself...