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Nine families could not stomach the exotic roast. Sixteen families reported having enjoyed their meal to the utmost. The Government was elated. "That was a tough old bull," said officials. "All would have relished tender calf meat." Experiments continued upon...
...average man. He has the reputation of knowing more about what the farmer really wants than any one else in Congress. It is said that he receives more personal mail than any other member of Congress, and reads and answers every letter. Among the things he started were Calf Clubs and Pig Clubs. He put up money secured only by the personal notes of boys and girls. At the end of a year, the animals were sold and the youngsters pocketed a profit.* His success in reading the farmers' minds is attested by his political record. He failed...
Edward of Wales, however, had foreborne to blush on the occasion when the jest was unconsciously perpetrated. Facetious despatches opined that he may have gained fortitude from a consciousness of his right to the motto which encircles his left calf whenever he dons the famed insignia? of the Order of The Garter: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." At any rate he stood at ease, with royal dignity, as those approached who were to confer upon him "the legal right to practice medicine, midwifery and surgery...
...Portadown, Ulster, the Rev. W. P. Nicholson costumed himself to preach his Sunday sermon. He rolled his trousers up to his knees, exposing two fine stretches of fatted calf. He unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...
Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke made calf's eyes in an interview. Said he: "I believe we handled the subjects in a way to rob them of all suggestiveness. . . . I am at a loss to understand the objections...