Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genuine Scotchman, Edinburgh born and bred, will play the role of MacGregor, a Scotch character, in "The Scarlet Coat", the musical comedy which is to be given by members of the Princeton Triangle Club at the Boston Opera House on Saturday evening...
Unfortunately, the resolution of the former soldier to see the treasures of capitalists offered in measure equal to his own sacrifice of flesh and blood, bred by a war's bitter experience, can hardly be undone by any number of conservative journals or by any deluge of warning editorials. American veterans seem unanimous in their intention to exact this un-bankerlike concession from the next congress, as it forced the bonus from the last. The Legion may still be led on the still-hunt for indigo-colored witches; but in the matter of the payment of war, it knows...
Distinguished men were bred upon those early Harvard-Princeton football fields. Their "line-ups," as we would say today, contained the names of W. E. Russell of Massachusetts, Robert Winsor and George R. Sheldon, Lucius N. Littauer and Robert Bacon, bankers and statesmen, all in their time football men at Harvard. On the Princeton teams were Blair Lee, later a United States Senator from Maryland and John S. Harlan, later Attorney General of Porto Rico and member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission...
Knight Commander. A ten-year-old chestnut gelding, bred by Robert Scott in Carluke, Scotland, sold when a year ling for "one of the highest prices ever paid for a harness horse in Europe." Purchased last spring by Miss Jean Browne Scott, of Manhattan, he lately beat Charm, famed hackney, at the Olympia show in England, thus becoming the champion English hackney horse. At the recent Bryn Mawr show, he was awarded 21 blue ribbons, an un precedented performance. In the present exhibition, he won the Bal- manno Challenge Cup, defeating his ancient rival, Field Marshal, and a blue...
These horses are all pure bred mounts, and added to the six horses which the department already has will make 12 ponies which are available for use by the polo team...