Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with this client fathoming her finances until all hours. Two well meaning bachelor friends of his set about to prove to his wife that it is possible for a man and woman to spend a night together in a house without alarming developments. To this end they feed her much champagne and she falls asleep in the bachelors' library...
...encountered by the cattlemen, herds in the southwest have been considerably reduced. Meanwhile pork prices have soared, and under satisfactory wage conditions the domestic demand for beef has increased. As a result, heavy steers are bringing better prices in Chicago today. On the other hand, the cost of cattle feed-always a most important factor in the industry- has held fairly stable. Some cattlemen expect to see on their ledgers this year the first profits since...
There are a dozen Forbes-Robertson mouths to feed and Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
Corn stalks are extensively used for ensilage and feed for animals. From the corn cob is extracted a synthetic resin which is extensively used in making telephone receivers, pipe stems, electrical equipment formerly made of hard rubber, buttons, glue and similar objects...
...Middletown, N. Y., a stream overflowed, covered with water the garden of one Louis Bell so that, in the night, a 15-lb. German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus. Bell rushed out, beat the carp to death with a spade...