Word: anguses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributor who signed his name "Angus" suggested light-weight chimes (which cost less) instead of heavy, cast bells. One who called himself "Banker" urged Nancy to hasten, lest inflation raise the cost of the tower. Alarmed, Nancy's donors redoubled their efforts. By last month she had raised $27,700, still needed around $20,000 more. One morning "Banker" came in person to her office, offered to lend her the rest without interest...
EDWARD LEAR-Angus Davidson- Dutton...
...Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...
Breed Cattleman Congdon slightly exaggerates the antiquity of his be loved breed. True, there have been black, hornless cattle in northeastern Scotland from time immemorial-but, says James R. Barclay, Secretary of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, the beginning of the "breed improvement . . . which was to have its out come in the present-day Aberdeen-Angus breed of cattle . . . was about one hundred and thirty years ago, to be exact, in the year...
Married. Captain Angus Walters, 55, peppery skipper of the full-rigged Canadian schooner Bluenose, winner of the International Fishermen's Trophy (TIME, Nov. 7); and Mildred Butler, 28-year-old Nova Scotian; in Halifax. In Boston on his wedding trip, Captain Walters admitted that he was also trying to collect $6,000 in expense money because the race had been delayed. Said he: "The people of Canada will consider it an insult if payment isn't made soon...