Word: aberdeen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speech. Wilson & Co.'s Chairman Thomas Edward Wilson to entertain at dinner 1,300 healthiest members of the 4-H Club. New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. to sit on the show's cattle department directorate, Dutchess County's Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down the Temple's broad cement ramps, past rows & rows of freshly curried swine, sheep, steers, beef cows, rows & rows of the cream of the corn crops, prime kernels of wheat, oats. rye, barley...
...Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International...
...rector in Jamaica and Westchester, N. Y. a stanch Tory, he pamphleteered against the U. S. Independence in a series of "Farmer's Letters," was imprisoned in Connecticut for six weeks in 1775. Chosen bishop by ten Connecticut churchmen, he was consecrated in 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland because he could not properly take the British oath of allegiance. An able organizer and a strict churchman, he signed himself "Samuel Bp. Connect...
...With seven pipers skirling "Hielan' Ladie," the royal party entered the great hall. Over her jeweled gown Queen Mary wore a taffeta shoulder sash of Royal Stuart tartan. In the musicians' gallery was King George's favorite dance orchestra, Mrs. Annie Shand's Band from Aberdeen, which has played at every servants' ball at Balmoral since the War. Mrs. Annie Shand and her band gallantly tackled the Greek national anthem for the royal foreigners. While King George and the Archbishop of Canterbury sat looking on, royalty and servants danced the Paul Jones. There were also...
...course and club house is located at the upper end of Huron Avenue in Cambridge. If going by street car take Huron Ave. Car at Harvard Square and get off at Aberdeen...