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...Hastings obtained from Germany a zebra stallion which he bred to white Arabian mares, percherons and common farm mares, the percherons bearing the best foals. The offspring resemble the ordinary mule in their deep chests, large necks, strong legs, but retain the gaudy stripes of their wild African forebears...
...from Wisconsin, not inclined to be forward, has yet shown in the Tariff Commission investigation that he is not the type to sit back dumbly during cross-examining. The Republican side of the committee has Senator Goff of West Virginia, a so-called hard-boiled Republican of the genus bred in West Virgina, and Senator McNary of Oregon, known in the Senate as an able cloakroom politician...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart, whom Iowa sent to the Senate in 1922, as a loud-speaking, bad-dressing, pseudo-hog-raising Progressive. The difference between the two is that Brookhart is still snorting?at Wall Street, at the Administration. He wants Iowans to know that he is the only pure-bred farmer bull snorting in political pastures. He snorted so loud in 1924 for LaFollette against Coolidge that he was beaten by a narrow margin for reelection. Only recently (TIME, April 19, CONGRESS) he was ousted from the Senate in favor of his opponent, Democrat Dan Steck, after a recanvass...
...Original Subscriber, I have come to the conclusion that, in order to continue to be well-bred mentally, I must have TIME. It is in itself a cathedral of knowledge...
...poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today, if you stop at a romantic sylvan encampment in the New Forest and converse with its chief personage-usually a hawk-faced great-grandmother, who will offer you dirty tea and whine for a shilling-you will find that none can remember when any ancestor...