Word: breeder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rushing over to lead in the winner, Owner Herbert Maurice Woolf, a Kansas City clothier famed as a breeder of show horses, was so elated that he pranced like one of his colts, swung his binoculars above his head in circles, pumped the hand of Jockey Arcaro again & again. Not only had Owner Woolf won the $47,000 first-place money and a $5,000 gold cup, but he had bet heavily and forehandedly on his Missouri colt-whose sire he had picked up for $500. Placing substantial wagers in the winter books (as high...
Terriers (Airedales, Bedlingtons, cairns, fox terriers, etc.). In London last week, at the same time as the Westminster show in Manhattan, was held the immense, 9,109-dog Cruft's Show (which in England is second in importance to the smaller Kennel Club Show). Day after Breeder Sheldon M. Stewart of Montclair, N. J. received a cable that his homebred Airedale Merry Sovereign had gone to best terrier at Cruft's. his homebred Airedale Ch. Shelterock Modest Smasher was named best of breed at Westminster. But a few hours later the fox terrier which had beat Merry Sovereign...
...houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs decided to take this year's muskrat census by airplane...
...dairy breeds do not make first-class beef, hence, a breeder or raiser of dairy cattle would send his heifer calf to the butcher for veal at eight weeks, if he knew she would not breed, produce a calf and become a milch cow later-rather than feed the calf for twelve to 18 months, find she could not be gotten with calf, and then had to go to the butcher...
Died. Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings. 75, Chicago & Manhattan capitalist and famed trotting-horse breeder (Uhlan, Lou Dillon, The Harvester, Major Delmar); of pneumonia; at "Billings Park," near Santa Barbara, Calif. At 18 he entered Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., succeeded his father as president in 1887, became board chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon Co. in 1929; Turfman Billings was celebrated for his "horseback" parties at Manhattan's Sherry's. Guests rode their horses into the elevators, ascended to the dining room while mounted, were served by liveried waiters while their horses munched oats...