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Word: besse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club division, Milton Piper of Watertown, Wis., won the Holstein grand championship with his heifer, Ruby Homstead Ebenezer. Dolly WTild Rose Pietertje de Kil, owned by Martin Warren of Iowa City, won the junior yearling class ribbon. Princess Cascade Ormsby Bess, belonging to Vincent McLaury of Celwin, Iowa, was judged the best aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Dairy Show | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Brighton abattoir, he was reminded by his 97-year-old parent that "it's a durn good hotel." Accordingly he signed his name once more on the Brunswick's blotter and remarked casually to Desk Clerk Henry Nelson: "I guess you better take care of Bess out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bess in Boston | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Nelson looked out there, saw Bess, a shaggy black mare, patiently switching her tail, harnessed to an old-time buggy, haltered to a steel trolley-line pole. He demurred. "It's the law," said Reuben Curtis. A hundred guests soon filled the echoing lobby, but failed to decide the case. Reuben Curtis and a bellhop hustled to the nearest police court, quickly unearthed this 100-year-old statute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bess in Boston | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Reuben returned. "You gotta take care of my Bess," he repeated. Desk Clerk Nelson complied, rejoicing that Reuben Curtis had already sold his cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bess in Boston | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Nina, police dog of Marietta, Pa., who led her master to the barn where he found Bess, a prize cow, strangling to death with her head caught in a hay rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Spratt Award | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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