Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clamp from the short, inside belt. About a foot farther on, a lever is pressed down, completing an electrical circuit. Some 1,000 to 1,500 volts, depending on the size of the fowl, stepped up by transformers from ordinary house current, pass through the victim, shooting out its tail like an angry cock's, stunning it instantly. The fowl passes on to a revolving circular knife which slits its throat, then through a hot bath to the pluckers...
...trip to England, announced it would be a round-trip affair with only a few hours' pause at Croydon. To safeguard themselves in case the Lady Peace plopped into the ocean, Flyers Richman and Merrill stuffed every cranny of her metal wings and tail with 41,000 Ping-Pong balls to give buoyancy in the water, added publicity value to the trip...
...contestants have always patronized women, in 1934 ousted them altogether. Smilingly observed Pilots Thaden and Noyes last week when they found they had won one of the two most important events of the Races: "Well, that's a surprise! We expected to be the cow's tail...
...tugged at his cow's udders, the ordinary dairyman of the great dairy State of New York had plenty to bother him last week besides keeping Bossy's tail out of his eyes...
...view last week was another of those scandals which periodically afford U. S. film followers an intimate glimpse of high & low life in Hollywood. While the cinema colony shamefully hung its tail between its legs, while circulation managers of the tabloid Press howled with delight, Mary Astor and Dr. Franklyn Thorpe battled for the custody of their 4-year-old daughter in a mud-slinging contest in which the purpose of each was to make the other appear grossly immoral...