Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking wise, local journalists wrote that tourists seldom learn of these cities' numerous resorts, mostly patronized by Canadians. Worst of Montreal Vice, opined local reporters, is the depression-bred habit of some impecunious high school girls, who earn pin money by stopping briefly after school in questionable houses, then go on home to their unsuspecting and respectable parents...
...least 50% of polo are the "mounts," now bred so big and speedy that poloists have almost discarded the term "ponies." Main reason for Argentina's victory last week was the fact that the Argentine mounts, which are likely to bring record prices after the series, were not only better but more numerous. After the fourth chukker, when the score was tied at 8-all, the U. S. team-Bostwick, Balding. Hitchcock, Whitney-began, as is customary, to use ponies that had already played a chukker. The Argentines-Duggan, Cavanagh, Gazzotti, Andrada-used fresh ones throughout the second half...
Thus snorted handsome, Harvard-bred John H. Baker, the banker-trained executive-director of the National Association of Audubon Societies when, last fortnight, the U. S. Biological Survey announced through President Roosevelt that this year, like last, there will be a 30-day open season for duckshooting. Using the Drought as his prime argument, Director Baker had been trying to have duckshooting suspended entirely until the birds can breed up to their oldtime numbers. Using reports from its field agents as evidence, the Survey had concluded that while U. S. breeding areas were affected, Drought had not touched the ducks...
Long before the Civil War a German known to medical history only as G settled in wild Washtenaw County, Michigan, near the village of Ann Arbor. As Indians withdrew into the northern forests, Pioneer G cleared woodlands, cultivated crops, bred children. When at the age of 60 he died of cancer of the intestines in 1856, he left ten children. Four of his five sons, two of his five daughters subsequently died of cancer. The third generation of G's numbered 70, of whom 33 died of cancer...
Memphis "socialites" have been at least tutored if not bred to the better tradtion of southern manners. None would disport her thick, blackened thigh to Pictures...