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...seven-year-old bay gelding trotter Coolidge 2.07½ (1930), out of Zarrine by Guy Axworthy, bred by Alfred Houston Cosden of Southold. L. I., now anonymously owned...
Undersecretary Castle is not like that. Twelve years in the State Department have bred into this slender, grey-haired. grey-eyed man a profound regard for the formal usages of his profession. He would no more give an ambassador such stark instructions than he would dine at the French Embassy in overalls. Yet behind his correct exterior the new Undersecretary is a man of real ability...
...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...
...Preface to Morals). And it is a paradox that his exercise of the Liberal Spirit has brought him to a position which most Liberals would excoriate. He began with a stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments of the Mass. As editor of the World, public ignorance was his field. As idealist, organized public intelligence was his dream. Pessimistic passages in his writing give the same impression that one gets from hearing...
...thoroughbred racing camel can run 150 mi. a day, carry a pack load three days without water. The best racers are Mehara dromedaries. They are mostly bred by that old tribe whose men haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right...