Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highness may have "a talent for catastrophe," but a newsmagazine of your calibre should not overlook the fact that he also has a talent for breeding Asil Arabian Horses. From what I know, I would say that his main interests are confined to breeding the best horses in the world. His stud in Egypt and Lady Wentworth's stud in England are the only two horsebreeding establishments in the world (except the secret breeding tribes of the Arabian desert to which only the initiated few are admitted) where one can find an unpolluted strain of the blood to which...
...epitome of the strained feelings engendered by the tariff bill which the Senate Finance Republicans last week finished drafting. Best Democratic comment was by Representative McClintic of Oklahoma: "The working man may worry because his shoes will cost a dollar or two more but truffles for his paté de foie gras are on the free list. . . . His sugar bill goes up as does his milk bill and his meat bill but he can get Gobelin tapestries for his humble home duty free...
...politics in Massachusetts is due to jealousies and backbiting between leaders and senatorial candidates. The Senate seat now occupied by white-goateed Frederick Huntington Gillett is open to the 1930 election. Aged 78, an officeholder for a half-century, he is the Senate's best contract bridge player but otherwise has left no large impress upon its history. Younger men want his place, but he has volunteered to step aside only for Citizen Calvin Coolidge...
...Long a Harcourt, Brace best seller, it has been followed by Miss Mayo's novelization of the same subject, Slaves of the Gods, today a near bestseller...
Felix M. Warburg gave $500,000 toward a fund to establish the finance corporation, was elected head of the administrative committee. The corporation, he said "must be conducted . . . by a board which tries its best for the shareholders. The business must be conducted calmly, without hysterics or indiscretion...