Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Muriel Draper was born in New England, bred in Italy and France. She married the late Paul Draper, singer of songs, brother of Monologist Ruth Draper; and for six years they entertained in Vienna, in Florence, in London. Divorced before Paul died, Muriel Draper now works as interior decorator...
Canada's mushing season continued, at Quebec. Leonard Sepalla, oldtime musher from Nome, Alaska, loudly exhorted his fine-bred Siberian huskies in the annual three-day Eastern International Sled Dog Derby and finished 17 minutes ahead of Frank Dupuis, a St. Lawrence River Lighthouse keeper with a team of snapping mongrels. Behind Dupuis came Emil St. Goddard of Manitoba...
...famed James Mortimer Memorial trophy for the best American bred dog or bitch was won by Creme de la Creme of Pinegrade Kennels, a Cocker Spaniel owned by Frederic C. Brown of New York...
...leading anti-Wall-Streeter in the House is Henry T. Rainey, a tall, white-haired old Illinois farmer who has been in every Congress but the 67th since the 58th. In the Senate are Heflin, Norris, Brookhart, Shipstead and many another hinterlander whose eyes are vigilantly cocked for city-bred iniquities...
...SILVER VIRGIN-Ida A. R. Wylie -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In the little Spanish church of the Silver Virgin, where years ago he had found Justine, Gale sought sanctuary from his well-bred kindly friends. But friends being what they are, one of them broke sanctuary; and not knowing why Gale had left Justine, begged him to be reconciled to her. Bitterly, Gale: "Do you ever read your Apocrypha? You should. You really should. It has some fine eloquent passages. 'Like a eunuch embracing a virgin and groaning heavily.' What a magnificent metaphor! Those old fellows knew...