Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that because horses are destroyed by barn fires it should not be looked upon as the final answer to the equine's intelligence. It is my guess that if a deer and a horse were side by side during an approaching forest fire, they would both move in the direction of safety. Moreover, many a horse-wise Westerner would probably lay a bet with omniscient Mr. Buck that the horse would be the one that would escape...
...Your great magazine, under the heading . . . "Back of the Barn" [TIME, May 6] . . . made this statement: "The technique: buying from individuals in auto-jammed Detroit, selling to the auto-hungry mid-South through auction outlets in sleepy Cairo, Ill., and sleepier Murray...
...told you . . . that Murray was sleepy? How did you arrive at the conclusion that Murray is sleepier than Cairo, Ill.? Have you or any of your roving "asses of the barn" ever been to Murray...
...heavy toll was largely caused by the horse's civilized stupidity. Five of the Arden racers which had been led to safety broke loose, ran back into the blazing barn and perished. After generations of being groomed and cared for by man, horses feel that their stalls are the best and safest place in an emergency. They don't know what fire is and have little or no wild instinct left to warn them against...
Says Elizabeth Arden: "A beautiful horse is like a beautiful woman." An ugly horse doesn't stay long in Arden's barn, even if he can outrun Satan. About two mornings a week she shows up at the track to make sure her "darlings" don't get too much fresh air, or too little. She worries about flies biting them, and orders screens. Her horses once came down with a misery, and Arden ordered them rubbed down with her Ardena skin tonic instead of horse liniment, which, she said, smelled terrible. The trainer told her the stuff...