Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Dragon thus breathed defiance to the world, the British Lion wavered almost ludicrously irresolute last week. The British War ministry was very, very busy conditioning the Lion's claws; but the British Foreign Office was even busier wagging the Lion's tail in a friendly, ingratiating fashion...
...speech of the Senator from Alabama has been taken seriously by a few. It will be remembered that some 15 years ago Halley's comet scorched through the sky. It had a tail a million miles long. It gave off an iridescence; and some persons grew frightened until scientists assured them that while the tail was indeed a million miles long, the whole affair did not have about it or in it an ounce of substance. [Laughter.] Likewise, the speech of the Senator from Alabama gives off an iridescence, but is bereft of even an ounce of substance...
...mice go, famed. They had arrived in the luggage of Explorer-Engineer Grant Carveth Wells of England, who was going to take them to the American Museum of Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that ever excited awe in both sexes of human kind. Not Aesop's mouse who gnawed a lion free; not the three blind mice whom the farmer's spouse decaudated; not the clock...
...Parisian night club scandal and the Bishop is about to punish him, the Cardinal pops out from behind the curtain, announces that the padre has a heart of gold. Leo Carillo does the padre, but the real hero is Poilu, high-spirited dog, who wags his tail at the audience, his natural grace left uncropped by the playwright...
...lovers approached nervously with their pets. Each would have to receive a license tag or the untagged dog would be exterminated when caught. "Advanced" Mexican law givers had tied a hypodermic syringe full of anti-rabies serum to the tail of their...