Word: brooding
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...Long Island, in Maryland, and the West. 47 sleek racehorses took their morning gallops as usual last week. On a big farm near Lexington, Ky. 100 brood mares and eight famed stallions passed days of pleasure and tranquillity. At Brookdale. N. J. 30 yearlings tried their long thin legs against the time when they would be raced as two-year-olds. All were horses belonging to the stable of Harry Payne Whitney, and the men who took care of them were wondering what their fate was to be. For their master was dead (TIME, Nov. 3) and it seemed possible...
What has neverbeen heard before was the "breezy" backtalk which the Mother Country gave her grown-up brood of Dominions last week, as though she were beginning at last to think of herself as only a country too. Back-talker: the Secretary of State for the Dominions, the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas. At an Imperial Conference luncheon he said breezily...
...Robinson was released from custody when he promised no more to threaten death to Professor Ernest Laurer of Northwestern University. Declared Robinson: "My daughter, Roslyn, attended Professor Laurer's class in history five years ago. He taught her the theory of evolution. . . . She began to brood over it and that led to a nervous breakdown and death. I blame him for her death...
With her plump, black-eyed brood, Jewess after rich Jewess scuttled out of Germany last week, filling trains de luxe with wails and confusion. Mother-instinct knew the meaning of Jew-Baiter Adolf Hitler's election victory fortnight ago, when his Fascist "Brown Shirts" leaped fearsomely from ninth to second place among German parties (TIME, Sept...
...longer flaunts its misinterpretation of a Wagnerian passage, placed there in Wartime. Sword and inscription have been removed. At the Villa Wahnfried, the end of the reign of the inexorable Cosima is signalized by flowers on the window ledge, the removal of iron bars from the windows. A brood of ducks quacks unmusically in a new and ornate marble pond...