Word: brood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full sisters. Example: Omaha and Flares. Two horses with the same mother but different fathers are half-brothers or half-sisters. Example: Petee Wrack and Gallant Fox. Two horses with different mothers but the same father are "by the same sire." Example: Twenty Grand and Bold Venture. Because a brood mare is bred once a year, and a stallion many times, the thoroughbred strain is considered to be, by most thoughtful breeders, a matriarchy. Another popular misconception regarding the thoroughbred horse is that all thoroughbred horses are race horses. Today thoroughbred blood is being used everywhere by private and commercial...
...earnings very fair (?6,000 advance royalties on one book). Now & again he made a quick trip back into aristocratic society or home to Sparkenbroke Hall, to tell his still-hopeful wife politely that he no longer loved her, to sniff the fragrance of his native woodland and brood awhile in the interior of his family vault...
Contrary to popular opinion, Paul Gauguin was not the first crack artist to paint Tahiti. That distinction belongs to the father of U. S. mural painting, John La Farge.* Artist La Farge left a brood of talented, talkative descendants and a mass of pictures, but he lacked color for the general public...
...motives are unimportant. A good thing is a good thing, however accomplished. If more such starry-eyed innocents appear in the New Deal brood, we shall have to withdraw our uncompromising snobbery; they must be judged of themselves, not for their parenthood. President Roosevelt deserves the greatest credit for showing politicians of the most successful variety a way of extending indefinitely and forever the scope of honest and intelligent administration in government. Give your friends longer and better jobs; insure that when they die off they will be replaced by their betters...
Brother Hugh Howell, last of the blacksmith's brood, was for years a satellite of, but no relation to, famed Atlanta Lawyer Albert Howell, brother of Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. Hugh Howell emerged from obscurity when he stage-managed the Roosevelt pre-election junket to Georgia. With the rise of Eugene Talmadge, Hugh Howell was made chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Brother Hugh did not forget his older brother Alexander, a country schoolteacher, who soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which...