Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin promoted to rank at the tail* of his Cabinet, last week, seven of those "coming" young Conservative M. P.'s who are known in the House of Commons as the "ginger group." Among the promoted only Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, dashing husband of Lady Diana (The Miracle) Manners is well known in the U. S. He was stepped up to Financial Secretary of the War Office...
...Administration's avowed purpose in Nicaragua originally was to establish a constitutional government. Subsequent events have been well described as a case of "getting a bear by the tail." Last week the Administration avoided grasping another bear's tail. The State Department declined to supervise an election imminent in the Republic of Panama...
...back, a dip that allowed the bird to utilize the force of head-winds into which it might be flying. And he had designed, although he had not yet built, a machine for humans to fly albatross-wise. His machine was to have a wingspan of 25 ft., a tail of 12 ft., and a weight of 150 Ib. The man who would operate it, would lie prone. His feet would flap the contrivance's wings; his hands would steer...
...years old, was nursing a small pig with a bottle. First the pig slobbered gently upon the hand of George Ledbetter. Then the pig became hungry and began to squeal. James Ledbetter pinched the pig's nose, cuffed the pig's ear, pulled the pig's tail, used a bad word. Then he smacked the pig's nose with all his might. At this the pig squealed more loudly and sadly. James Ledbetter went into his grandfather's house, seized a large rifle, pushed the muzzle close to the pig's heart, pulled...
...Stratford, N. J., small Jule Price died last March when she was three years old. Her police dog scampered beside the car in which she was taken away. He wagged his tail beside the grave in which Jule Price was buried. Remembering things she had loved once, and might still need, he took them to her one by one, carrying them from a cedar chest in the nursery to the Berlin Cemetery...