Word: bulls
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England. King Henry II of England (1133-89) was a coarse, bull-necked man of capricious temper, with a talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...been digging on the site. Last season the School's director, Richard Stillwell of Princeton, reported excavation of a building which was evidently the headquarters of a great banking & shipping union. Elaborate mosaic floors were found intact, one depicting a female figure astride a Triton, accompanied by cupids straddling bull-headed marine monsters. Evidently those ancient traders did not rely entirely on their own sagacity, because in the offices was a shrine where the concessionaires might worship...
Born shortly after the first Battle of Bull Run, Frederick Waugh ran away from a number of schools until allowed to study painting, first in Philadelphia, later at the old Julian Academy in Paris. The sea has always been his passion. Living in Great Britain for 13 years, he began in the early 1900's painting the same sort of marinescapes that he still turns out. His sales began almost at once and medals and prizes followed soon after...
...imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International Exposition in Chicago an Angus was named...
...Temple of Agriculture, black Aberdeen Anguses had waddled off with every top and reserve (second place) prize in every one of the interbreed classes: best 4-H steer (raised by junior farmers), best steer, best herd (of three), best carlot, best get-of-sire (three by the same bull), best carcass. Anguses took a total of ten top carcass prizes in both light and heavy classes. Named Grand Champion Steer?foremost prize of the show?was Campus Idol, a black raised on Iowa State College's farm, whence had come, in former years, four other Grand Champions. Two days later...