Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Inquisitor Seabury put Builder Fred F. French on the stand. Mr. French, Brooklyn-born, was once a Princeton student, then successively a cow hand, stoker, timekeeper when the Hippodrome Theatre was erected. He is responsible for the Tudor City residential de-velopment on Manhattan's East Side. When he wanted to erect a Fifth Avenue office building of dimensions which needed an "interpretation" from the Board of Standards & Appeals in 1926, Builder French was guided to the Olvany firm...
Largest pet on display was Clover Leaf. a cow. Oldest were two tortoises claimed to be 350-500 years old. Smallest was an unidentified fish. Loudest was Susie, the Sebastopol goose. Most desperate were 462 squeaking canaries lodged in a crate exhibit. Most indifferent were two Llamas, who chewed cud quietly for five days. Most valuable per pound were two lion-headed goldfish valued at $500 each. Youngest were a litter of white mice born just as the show closed. Most popular was a baby elephant known variously as Bozo, Buddy and Buck. Least popular was a timid young skunk...
...lovely, flaccid Helen of Troy could be profitably refurbished by giving her pert ideas of her own in a modern novel, what is to hinder a ribby old cow from knowing a thing or two of the world's ways and expressing herself in song? The ribby old cow may be too old for milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack...
...same issue, describing the "Anti-Tammany Cow," your repeated incorrect use of "udders," indicating the cow's teats, will amuse farm-raised TiME-readers-perhaps a more numerous section than you suspect. For the benefit of TIME'S editors: a cow has but one udder, the gland which secretes milk. The appendages on each quarter, from which the milk is drawn, are correctly known as teats- inelegantly but rather universally pronounced "tits," Mr. Webster to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope no newborn delicacy prompted TIME'S lapse from the correct biological description...
...steps elsewhere, "Copey" will be giving three hundred and fifty Freshmen, no more, a glimpse of that culture which only four years of Harvard can inculcate. Whether the first year student goes to hear Copey read because he wants to see the only man privileged to pasture a cow on the sward of the Yard, or to thrill the nuances of great reading, he will come away with a new perspective on his Harvard career...