Word: herds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate of companionate marriage, who is sincere if nothing else, being snatched from the rioters by four burly detectives. Howis of glee must attend the non-partisan when he reads that this formally attired herd docilely returned to their pews, no longer menaced by the black sheep, sand "Fight the Good Fight" and then shouted "God bless Bishop Manning!" The Church Militant...
During the Civil War, the Confederates captured most of Jefferson Davis' dromedary herd. But Confederate Colonel Bethel Coopwood of Texas got 14 for himself, sent them over the line into Mexico. The rest were recaptured by the Federals, who in 1866 abandoned all camel experiments and offered the beasts for sale...
Last week Colonel Coopwood's descendants told the following story: Colonel Coopwood bought all the available dromedaries at $31 per head, took them to join his original 14 in Mexico. But when he drove the entire herd back into Texas, they were seized by the U. S. as stolen goods. Colonel Coopwood filed a claim against the Government, vainly pressed it during his lifetime. Last week's news was revival of the claim by Coopwood descendants. After the Government seized the Coopwood camels, they were turned loose in Arizona where they thrived, propagated. In 1870 a Nevada saltminer...
...Battle Creek, his legal residence, dare not talk. Dr. Carrie S. Staines Kellogg, 63, his second wife, who practices at Battle Creek, minds her own patients, not his business. Nor is there much small talk about him at Pomona, Calif., where he is breeding the largest registered herd of Arabian horses in the U. S. Hence his public reputation for dourness...
...intrude on the campusian walks of America's Greatest Women's College. So saying, the Vagabond will leave the shades of Sophia Smith with a parting admonition to the effect that the entertainment consists mostly of absorbing the cleverest, catchiest, and downright distinctive set of rules governing any herd of femmes congregated anywhere. To make the game a bit more interesting this writer will give a slight hint just to get the ball rolling, so to speak: Don't kick any bottles over. Penalty double in this case...