Word: stud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spare their tears. Big Red leads the life of Reilly, is king of a 968-acre demesne in Kentucky's lush, warm Blue Grass country, is stalled in a luxury stable, with attendants to come a-running at his every sneeze and snort. Since settling down at stud some 20 years ago, he has attracted visitors on the scale of the Dionne Quintuplets. Herbert Haseltine, who once sculped the carriage horse of Britain's Queen Alexandra, is at work on a model for a bronze statue of Big Red. A typical...
...money in his genes. Having a mare served by him costs the mare's owner $5,000, although occasionally Mr. Riddle, for the good of racing, waives the stud fee for poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals. His get had won 1,069 races for $2,970,428. Some of his more brilliant offspring: American Flag, Crusader, War Admiral, Mars, Clyde Van Dusen, Bateau, Scapa Flow, War Glory, Genie and Battleship. Big Red was the famed Seabiscuit's grandpa. Though his weight is up a little and his back...
...there have been three or four dog races a week. Henceforth there will be but one, on Saturdays. In 1939 there were 12,000 dogs on the tracks, now there are 6,000. Most of the retired dogs were not destroyed, but made into pets or put out to stud. Bidding is still keen for good dogs at sales, where a promising pup will fetch 300 to 400 guineas (a guinea is currently worth $4.22). A greyhound pup knocked down for 100 guineas is considered practically a selling plater...
...names that stud the Churchill Cabinet-Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, War Secretary Captain David Margesson and others-seem to many Britons touched with the odor of Munich. Last week the growth of discontent in Britain could be measured in figures. A Gallup poll recorded that only 29% of the citizens polled felt that their country was making the most of its opportunities, only 44% were satisfied with the Government's war conduct. (Even after the disaster of Crete 58% were satisfied with the war effort...
...puts on an act - every day in person, once a week in the lively, mimeographed pages of the News. The monkey and the anteater are parts of the act. So is his official pseudonym in the News: El Toro Ferdiliza. And so are the screwy lines which stud Editor Doster's paper (OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: SLAPHAPPY. OUR MOTTO: "Blessed be he who bloweth hsi own horn, for his'n shall be blowed...