Word: bred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intentions and pomposity, refused to consider it as a masterpiece, but conceded that its weighty persistence was more impressive than the average novel's. In a prose that at times had echoes of the late George Moore's, at others wore the same spurious air of well-bred indifference as Joseph Hergesheimer's. Author Morgan's story beautified the Byronic hero as lover, as artist...
...poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini would take off his hat and bow in submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce!" Next morning Achille Starace's men captured Gondar, and within three days the first Italian troops reached the shores of Lake Tana. In Rome the Rearing Horse was tractable enough to fill the Fas cist Press with soothing statements...
...Rose bred his rats from a group originally purchased ten years ago. Most U. S. white rat experimenters, however, get their supply from the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology at University of Pennsylvania. There in specially built steel and concrete buildings, under the watchful eye of Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson, world authority on Mus Norvegicus albinus, hordes of white rats are fed and pampered as carefully as princelings. For 96 generations the rats have breathed only pure and sterile air. Visitors who might bring in germs are shooed off. Eventually it is hoped that the animals will be wholly...
...humble subject of His Majesty named T. H. L. Hony of Fowey in Cornwall was creating a well-bred little Mayfair stir last week with his "discovery" that King Edward VIII, his brothers and King George V were all born on Saturday...
...appearance since she arrived. Such bachelors as Rush Holt of West Virginia and Richard Russell of Georgia have been seen hovering near her desk. As the best-looking Senator whom her colleagues have ever seen, she is shown special consideration on all sides. In the press gallery some ill-bred wag suggested that the parliamentary inquiry most frequently in Senators' minds is: "Will the Senator from Louisiana yield...