Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will scuttle back and forth on the shore, cackle and screech and flap her wings, but that's the ineffective best she can do for an incongruous brood gliding serenely off to midpond. Mr. Meadows was a very nice old hen, his scuttlings were well-bred, his cacklings mellifluous. In a charming London house he brought up his daughters and entertained their friends. But when his dependable older daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love...
...Over here, when you see the fox, you should cry 'View Hallo!' instead of 'There he goes, the dirty little ... .. .... !" ? British peer's instructions to ill-bred novice foxhunter...
...Talley trouble," meanwhile, has come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred by the First Christian Church of Kansas City, a public to be a little suspicious of, and a handful of haughty prima donna ways which have not helped her popularity...
...unionized (Chicago Yellow drivers are not); the drivers must prowl around Chicago for fares. Checker drivers as individuals have fought the Yellow drivers as clansmen and as scabs; soon forgetting their business rivalry, the chauffeurs fought for love of fighting and out of the hatred which is bred in taxicab drivers by the rigors of their profession. They turned at each quickly in their cars, driving them as Hector drove his chariot; they bombed garages and used guns, like gangsters...
...Argentine ponies, like Argentine players, get their training on cow-ranches; that makes them tougher, quicker to turn and readier to use their weight in riding off. They are not broken to polo until they are four or five years old; by this time they are stronger than ponies bred in England or on the playing fields of Westbury will ever...