Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of the three new undersecretaries in the War, Navy and Commerce Departments, a great cry was made all over the country through Coolidge's controlled press that air power was being assisted and developed. Nothing of the kind was done, as it was still made the tail of the dog. It was not given a separate department in the Government under a cabinet member. This must be done eventually, so the sooner we create it the better...
...Keezer in the range of its wares, the annual old clothing drive of the Phillips Brooks House will come to a conclusion with final collections this afternoon and tomorrow morning. A peculiar emphasis in the past has flooded the Brooks House with white ties, white vests, and discarded swallow tail coats...
...plane about which only the following details were rumored last week: It has two Pratt & Whitney Wasp motors mounted tandem in the nose, one driving an ordinary tractor propeller, the other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot, 1926 Harmon Trophyist. Backed by the Chicago Daily News, he will try for a standing prize...
...Yukon River, as they always do at April's end. Cause of the Yukon's blackness: it is stuffed, crammed, jammed with malacopterygian teleosteans. By tens of thousands they are crowding upstream. Waterfalls as high as 15 ft. cannot stop them; a flirt of their powerful tails puts them over. They plunge under the face of higher falls, seeking a tail-hold for a second leap. As they hurl their sleek, silvery bodies over the falls, it is clear why they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means "a leaper.") Goal of the jostling, leaping fish is the quiet...
...they called lack of money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted over land and sea, playing havoc with solemn industrious citizenry, making mock of bump tious clergy and royalty. Pantagruel's father, Gargantua, had set the pace, rid ing into battle upon a Numidian mare whose tail was so long that by whisking it a few times she knocked down a forest. During the battle, Captain Tripet, enemy, gives up four potsful of soup