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...true that goat's milk, much richer than cow's milk, has small fat globules more evenly distributed throughout its 84.14% of water. But some of the cream, taking longer than cow's cream, will rise to be skimmed. The rest of the butterfat can be obtained by use of a mechanical separator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...took a year. Twelve nights the charivari continued while Father Peterson grew grimmer and grimmer, Juoni & bride grew paler and weaker. The band grew larger, jumped to 40, doubled overnight. To the horns, tin pans, boilers, drums,, hoops, hammers, fiddles, were added saxophones, beer trays, cow bells, circular saws. Father Peterson appealed to Sheriff Elmer Saunders, had four leaders arrested, held in $50 bond by Ashland's Municipal Judge Thomas A. Humphrey. The next night the din was louder, included the popping of pistols. Father Peterson appeared at his door with a shotgun, was forced to retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jobs | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...Petersburg, Ind., where water was scarce after a dry spell, Mrs. A. H. Wolven ran a hose to a tub from which her cow might drink. A thirsty rat ran up the hose, plunked into the water. Other thirsty rats heard his gurgling squeaks. Up the hose they ran, one after another. In the morning Mrs. Wolven found 19 drowned rats in her cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Rat-Trap | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...philosophic cow which not only sings falsetto and bass but also performs duets with itself will next November join that operatic zoo which includes the lyrical Forest Bird and the Dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duetting Cow | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure. The old lady by stages becomes a beauteous princess whom Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duetting Cow | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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