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...choice in all sizes, complexions and dispositions. Among those present: a centuries-old trowel-eared Cat Head in bronze (7th-4th Century B.C.) which stared out of its case with the composed dignity that its important place in Egyptian society had justified; a mummy of the same breed (one of thousands of such embalmed animals found in the Nile Valley), bound into a thin, dusty cylinder with only the ears and sunken face visible; a 15th Century specimen crouched and grinning above a terse warning: "Beware of cats, which lick in front and scratch behind...
...With the breed championship under his collar, Zazarac Brandy strutted again into the green-carpeted ring at Madison Square Garden for a go at 22 rivals for the best-in-group prize (boxers, Great Danes, collies, German shepherds, etc., classified as "working breeds"), and won again. It was easier than baiting boars. When the six group-finalists-a Welsh terrier, a Dalmatian, a miniature pinscher, an Irish setter, a greyhound and Zazarac Brandy-gathered for the showdown, it took tuxedoed Judge Tom Carruthers III just 15 minutes to single out Brandy as best-in-show-and dog-of-the-year...
...matter of fact, these dog fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...
...barbecued some of the pin-striped denizens of Manhattan's garment district. In his latest (and sixth) novel, the tiger wears tweeds and its hunting grounds are the knotty-pine fastnesses of a Madison Avenue newspaper syndicate; but when the price is right, the beast still shows its breed...
...benefits of GE under the present arrangement; but at least an element of compulsion is necessary to protect department teachers from having to compete with the broader aims of he Committee. To organize the system too far might produce, as is the case in other school, "a lesser breed without the law," a general education faculty looked on disdainfully by their colleagues of the departments. Today's proposal guarantees the continuance of high-level instruction obtained by staffing GE from regular Faculty rolls...