Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jackass. Disgruntled at their failure to win any tariff victories, Republican troopers took to sticking out their tongues at the enemy, calling them naughty names. First Major-General Reed of Pennsylvania referred to western senators as "worse than Communists." Then Lobbyist Grundy. also of Pennsylvania, called them representatives of "backward commonwealths" (TIME, Nov. 11). Last week came the crowning insult from the lips of swashbuckling General George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire. President Pro Tempore of the Senate...
...west the cloud of pessimism has not yet obscured the glory of football and all that it connotes. The explanation of this phenomenon seems to Mr. Tunis to be merely the fact that the student in the eastern college is more mature and grown-up than his western confrere...
Coming out of the green mist that has enveloped her in numerous Erin and Great Western roles, Colleen Moore emerges this week at the Met as a really first string triple threat talkie star. Without any doubt "Footlights And Fools", a sea of comedy with cross currents of dramatic interest is Miss Moore's best piece of work. Incidentaly, it probably will bring her new admirers from the ranks of those who have been frankly cold to her smiling Irish eyes...
...University, Junior University, and Freshman teams, 'which will take place on alternate Saturdays in December. After the midyear period the team will play several games outside of Cambridge. On February 8 they will play West Point there, followed by a return game here on February 15. A western trip will see the team meet the 107th Cavalry in Cleveland February 21, and Cincinnati Riding Club in Cincinnati on February 22. On March 1 the team will meet Yale here, with a return game in New Haven on March...
Known to the western world chiefly through Rudyard Kipling's story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," Herpestes griseus (or mungo) is a dingy grey-brown rodent about 30 inches long including a pointed tail. When excited, its long stiff hairs stand erect. This bristling hair, together with thick skin, is one of the mongoose's protections against the fangs of serpents. Contrary to hearsay, the mongoose is not immune to snakebite except by dint of its intuitive agility. With uncanny timing it dodges thrust after thrust of the serpent, gradually exhausts its enemy, then darts in, bites the nape...