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...Most authorities, e.g., the U.S. Trotting Association and Blood-Horse, doubt that standardbreds are more populous than thoroughbreds. But for a well-bred example of Reader Koch's favorite breed, the three-year-old trotter and Hambletonian Winner Scott Frost...
...Jones wastes no time on anything so dubious as sublimated sexual energy, although he notes in a well-bred British way: "The more passionate side of married life subsided with him earlier than it does with many men." Neither does the analyst get much help from the periods of Freud's greatest creativity. These are marked by a banal anal factor. His productivity, the great man once wrote probably had much to do with the "enormous improvement" in the activity of his Konrad...
...TIME put a city-bred correspondent's foot in its mouth...
...self who brought the first 25 horses, probably of Arabian ancestry, to the New World, landing at Santo Domingo on his second voyage in 1493. The Indians, terrified by the strange beasts, were easily routed. Later, the western Indians caught on, stole horses from Spanish conquerors, rode and bred them for war and hunting...
Through the years, even Tiffany's stationery department brought distinction, e.g., its engraved invitations for the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, for the parties of the Vanderbilts and the Morgans. Tiffany's has always been a place where the well-bred aristocrat felt at home.* Its atmosphere of well-mannered opulence is more like a diplomatic reception than a trade mart. A greying, well-groomed clerk will compare the merits of two solitaires in a well-modulated murmur, but never, never press a customer to buy. Since cash registers are noisy, Tiffany's does not permit...