Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor, he said, "buy the building." To quote Sullivan again, "he is successful at getting things done, and with all his assumption...
...novelty. The production aims throughout to represent Goethe's poem as faithfully as Gounod's music. To this end the character of Mephistopheles has been so changed as to make him the embodiment of the negative forces of life rather than the conventional stage devil with incredible horns and tail. The apparent incongruity in the former double role of Faust is alleviated by having two artists sing the separate roles, one representing the aged philosopher, and the other the young man of the world, created by Mephistopheles, the conjurer. The role of Siebel, which is usually sung by a mezzo...
...whistle the Seniors though long in the water and powerful in the pull through showed a dangerous tendency of shooting the tail which caused a noticeable check. The Junior Crew, likewise weak at the start, were a trifle slow in the catch and sloppy on the slide. Meanwhile, the Sophomores were hampered by a crab at No. 7 which caused a slight panic. Crabs at Nos. 5 and 6 entered the boat later on in the race. Ragged as was the start the boats tore through the water. The crowd roared advice from the shore but the cox after several...
...horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian, save for its short, sharp tail. Horned toads run; they do not hop. They breathe by means of lungs, not through the skin. Frogs and regular toads can breathe through the skin. Horned toads (i.e. lizards) are of a higher form of life than are batrachians...
...different was Talavera Margaret, the wire-haired foxterrier bitch whom Reginald M. Lewis offered as his champion! She was a sturdy study in angles put together with a T-square. Everything indicated that her vitals were made of steel and rubber; her tail, when touched, would snap upward as crisply as a stick of whalebone. Her frisky good-nature was that of a high-pressure debutante; in a day when such ardent and consciously winsome charm is highly prized in drawing rooms, it cannot fail to have its value in the ring of a dog show; Talavera Margaret was judged...