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Bull Moose   Listen
noun
Bull Moose  n.  U. S. Politics)
(a)
A follower of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912; a sense said to have originated from a remark made by Roosevelt on a certain occasion that he felt "like a bull moose." (Cant)
(b)
The figure of a bull moose used as the party symbol of the Progressive party in the presidential campaign of 1912.






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"Bull Moose" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the chill of a windless night. A timid bear, a wolf who spends its desolate life in dismal protest against a solitary fate, the crashing rush of a startled caribou, the deliberate bellow of a bull moose, strayed far south from its northern fastnesses. These are the harmless creatures peopling the obscure recesses. For the rest, they are the weird suggestions of ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum

... game I've shot was certainly wild; in fact, I sometimes took steep chances when I missed. When you get after a bull moose or a cinnamon bear it's prudent to hold straight. Well, I'd sooner my neighbors liked me, but don't mean to keep my land waste ...
— Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss



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