Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorker did not reveal: that the "group of animal lovers" was one Marcia O'Day, attractive little 28-year-old brunette; that the Mouse Beautiful started as a joke among her friends; that Miss O'Day does not breed mice but buys them from a pet shop...
...Bremond argued that the dogs of St. Bernard no longer serve a useful purpose since traveling conditions in the mountains have improved. The monks breed them only to sell and as objects of curiosity, he claimed. He found a few sympathizers in the district who said the St. Bernard breed has degenerated, that Swiss gendarmes have been forced to kill several dogs grown vicious because the monks keep them tied up for long periods, allowing them off leashes only twice a day at most...
...lovers on two continents came to the defense of this noble breed's original strain. Newspapers as far removed in editorial policy as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York Sun published editorials urging mercy. The St. Bernard, said the Sun, "ought in fairness to be judged by his long and respectable history, not by the crimes of an occasional rogue...
...HERO BREED - Pat Mullen - McBride ($2.50). Author Mullen (Man of Aran) keeps his heroine out of the way to the end so as to give plenty of room for his hard-hitting, quick-tempered Irish fishermen and smugglers...
...Manhattan seven years ago a group of sportsmen and businessmen organized More Game Birds in America, Inc., early realized that, so far as ducks were concerned, conservation in the U. S. was only a fraction of their problem. Not overshooting, but destruction of breeding grounds by agriculture and drought was the prime cause of duck decrease. And approximately 80% of all ducks shot in the U. S. breed in Canada-chiefly on the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 1935 More Game Birds surveyed the Canadian region, saw what needed to be done. This year it is ready with...