Word: wolf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finally, Democrats agreed, the very man to march in the rear rank, just in front of File Closer Kellogg, would be his former law partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully luring the Associated Press into printing its celebrated "Wolf! Wolf! despatch" (TIME, Dec. 27) declaring that a Mexican "Bolshevist hegemony" is intervening in Nicaragua "between the U. S. and the Panama Canal...
When such lurid posters appeared in Moscow last week, throngs rushed to trade tchervontsy for tickets. All mobs love gore, but must very generally do with out it nowadays. Therefore, the wolf fight prospectus which was distributed in Moscow last week was pawed by eager humans, blood curious, licking their chops: The Co-operative Association of Moscow Hunters will present a magnificent spectacle in which 1,000 rabbits will be chased and torn to pieces by 200 hounds. . . . Eighty foxes and an equal number of dogs will fight...
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...Belleville, Ill., one Sidney Goring, 15, heard his father's farm dogs fighting in a ravine beside the house, ran to see, ran back for his father's shotgun, blazed both barrels, slew a large grey wolf...
...except ye be as a child ye cannot ascend Parnassus without art. And Vachel Lindsay is a child without art, and as a child without art he sets out bravely not toward Parnassus but toward the mountains of Glacier Park, toward Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and the Red Gods, and various flowers, and love in a cabin, and far horizons. As a child he returns with a bouquet of words about Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and various flowers, and far horizons, and the Red Gods, and love in a cabin. As the bouquet of a child is this...