Word: snowdrift
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...blinding blizzard struck suddenly out of the north, driving the master to cover. Wind, sleet and snow beat down on the old dog, but he, who had never in his life broken a point, refused to do so now. Next morning his master found him, half-buried in a snowdrift, still on point-head high, tail out like a champion, frozen dead...
...Ridgeway, Mo., Albert Harding freed his cow. For 17 days it had been prisoned under a huge snowdrift against the side of a haystack, nibbling into the haystack for food, licking into the snowdrift for water...
...specimens had frost-bitten ears, he got third prize, while Mrs. Roesler's Little Madam got first prize Of the six dogs which were judged best of their respective groups, by far the most famed was Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen. White as a snowdrift, except for his black nose and black eyes, Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen is the fabulous French poodle, owned by Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt of Katonah, N. Y., which has won the championships of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. His owner is fond of telling the story...
...into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht...
...David Wesson of the Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Co., inventor of Wesson (cottonseed) Oil, is working on a hot dog which will be made from the "cake'' residue left after the oil has been pressed from cottonseed (TIME, March...