Word: breds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spencer Love, a fast-moving, fast-thinking man who can keep thousands of details of his company's operations in his head, had earned his cockiness. He had parlayed a $3,000 shoestring into a textile empire that last year grossed $288 million (and netted $31.2 million). Born & bred at Harvard (where his father taught mathematics), Love came out of World War I a 23-year-old major. He took his $3,000 in savings to Gastonia, N.C., his father's home town, and got a $120-a-month job in a cotton mill. After talking local citizens...
...still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little Beth once more wastes away, bravely and wistfully, to an early death...
...Post, with one-third of its 225,000 circulation in rural areas, thought that Partridge's trick, even for city-bred readers, was worth an eight-column. Page One headline: OKLAHOMA'S PRISONER-COW FREED FROM SILO. But Managing Editor Alexis McKinney had some misgivings: "I see trouble ahead. Every farmer will be yelling, 'Send us Partridge...
...boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
...True Love (Paramount) is a sincere but woebegone Hollywood attempt to produce a British specialty: the quiet little drama in which well-bred characters stiff-upperlip their way through an emotional crisis...