Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bull Durham & Admirers...
Your most interesting account and genealogy of "Bull" Durham in TIME, July 4, under Animals does not take into account a story which has circulated in these parts since the advent of the "lugubrious-passioned buxom Holstein cow" into the tobacco advertisements. This mid-western story is that one of the old style "Bull" Durham ads appeared on a Minnesota highway just across a pasture fence in which pasture a Swede farmer pastured his Holstein herd of fine dairy cows. Soon the farmer found a decline in his milk supply, later it was discovered that his cows spent their daylight...
...gate is far too small to let all through at once. Those who could not get in fell to the ground. Men piled upon men, bulls leaped over a human wall and charged snorting into the ring. There they found men waving coats, shirts, rags-anything that remotely resembled a matador's cape. The bulls charged here &; there. Sometimes a novice held his bull's attention, executed several passes. Sometimes he went down with a horn wound...
...Bull is Spain's chief animal. He is a descendant of the wild bulls that roamed the Iberian peninsula, a closer cousin of the African Cape buffalo than of any domestic cattle. Spanish ganaderías (bull-raising establishments) raise their bulls in a wild state. Carefully bred to bring out all the courage of the strain, the best specimens are rigorously tested, the tame ones weeded out to be butchered. Those raised to fight are never allowed to come in contact with a man on foot lest they learn his tricks. They must remain virgin. The young ones...
...spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience was bothered the first night by "Canadian soldiers" (Ephemeridae, big-winged lake flies, called "Yankee soldiers" in Canada), but well pleased were they, especially with Mary Garden; Garden escaping the guards at the end of the first act. dashing through the Spanish village with...