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...polo matches and race meets which decorate Long Island summers. In winter the Clarks go to Melton Mowbray for the hunting. A friendship between Mr. Clark and the Prince of Wales-who visited them in Westbury in 1924-sprang up there one morning when Mr. Clark saw a cow struggling to get out of a fence. He threw his reins to the man nearest him. dismounted, extricated the cow, discovered that the Prince was holding his horse. If Ambrose Clark was disgruntled at the performance of Chadd's Ford last week, he had himself to thank. He bought Kellsboro...
Sweepings (RKO). Daniel Pardway (Lionel Barrymore) arrived in Chicago soon after Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp. He started a shop in the Loop, hired as general manager a smart Jew (Gregory Ratoff) who climbed across the sock counter out of the crowd at a sale. The shop grew into a huge department store called the Bazaar. Daniel Pardway's wife (Nan Sunderland) died before she had time to share Daniel's greatest disappointment: his children. The oldest. Gene, grew up to be a loose-life; the second son was a Tom Thumb...
...them a rich haul of hundreds of small mammals and birds, material that would answer many a question of taxonomy and faunal distribution. Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt was collecting big game for the habitat groups of the Field Museum. His account of his hunt for the huge sledang and the cow-like banting in the jungles of Cochin-China occupies the last third of the narrative...
...broad-beamed woman of middle age, with hazel eyes behind pince-nez glasses, and greying hair pulled back from her high forehead. Clad in a wool dress and old sweater she showed the newsmen the chicken house which she keeps clean, the wood she had chopped and the cow which follows her about like a pet. Countess and cow posed...
Flying home to California from a conference with President-elect Roosevelt, William Gibbs McAdoo was forced down at New Orleans by fog. Said he: "Republicans have had the milking teat of the cow too long. We're going to change that...