Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures so well that only 400 words are necessary. Technically, however, The Robber Symphony is early Keystone. The sound grinds, roars, squeaks. The photography is mostly bad, the acting lugubriously burlesqued, the fantasy laid on with a shovel. Two of the least unsuccessful fantasies: The dog's tail wagging to rhumba music; the dog wetting a man's trouser-leg because he will not give a penny for the music...
...Wisconsin, one from California and five Farmer-Laborites from Minnesota, flew into a rage at the Majority for not giving them assignments to important committees as members of a third party. Instead the Majority treated them as "bastard Democrats," assigned them to committees along with other Democrats at the tail end of the Majority's assignment. Hardly had this storm blown over when the Minority brought on another. The Republicans granted William Lemke, who ran for President on the Union Party ticket, and his colleague from North Dakota, Usher Burdick, committee places as Republicans but deprived them of seniority...
...transplanted a tomcat's sex glands to a rheumatic 14-year-old shepherd dog. "In two weeks," said Dr. Ford, "the rejuvenation took effect. The dog went wild. He was full of pep. He was all over the place. I never saw anything like it. He wagged his tail so hard that he knocked three loose rungs out of my front stairs banister. Twice I locked him in a cage outdoors. Both times he broke loose. Then I tied him. He chewed himself free. He was too much for us. About a month ago we had to destroy...
They intend to do it no doubt, but your Jesuitic reasoning makes them more anxious to succeed. I never realized your tendencies, but now your fascist horns and tail become visible...
...Back over the tail lie New York and its satellites like a giant Christmas tree blown to the ground, with the lights still burning. Heavy yellow lines mark the trunk and main branches tapering off to isolated pinpoints that try to hold the tip designs, as if the decorators ran short of bulbs...