Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Benjamin Fantham and Dr. Annie Porter, McGill University zoologists, came upon a Quebec "family of little women" none of whom was more than four and a half feet tall. They were all well-proportioned, strong, vigorous and promiscuous. For cohabitants they invariably selected little men by whom they bred little children. This family drew a report in last week's Eugenical News...
...over the discussions of an international congregation. Citizens of democratic countries are becoming increasingly huffy and high-handed with dictatorial governments like Fascism and Naziism, but to what end? Autocracies, disagreeable as they may seem to a liberal people, must be dealt with. We who have been born and bred in democratic traditions are wont to treat European dictatorships like provisional governments merely waiting for the day of democratic revelation...
Connecticut-born and bred, Noah Webster was the son of a sturdy farmer, a veteran of the French & Indian Wars, who mortgaged his farm in order to send his promising son to college at Yale. The Revolution did not interrupt Noah's education: what soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent...
...drew on toward middle age; but before he had resigned himself to the role of gentleman amidst inferiors a legacy gave him the means of making a new start. He left his vulgar acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately for herself, Adria fell in love with...
...Author was born and bred on a Nebraska farm, could handle a team by the time he was 10. He still looks like a country boy. After farmwork, the University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic...