Word: foos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wire-haired fox terrier Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston was hound-marked with tan; the silky white of the pointer Benson of Crombie marked with liver. Snowflake, the Old English sheepdog, looked like a fresh snow drift blanketed with fine blue-grey ash. Only the Pekingese Wu Foo of Kingswere showed no white in its tawny-red fluff. The final judging lasted 20 minutes. Dr. Jarrett watched the six prize-winners as they circled the ring; eyed their carriage, gait and spirit; felt their shoulders, briskets and coats; solemnly pondered his decision...
Chinese bandits cheerfully take pot shots at almost any foreign vessel plying the yellow waters of the Yangtze-kiang. But never will they fire on a ship of Mei Foo (Standard Oil Co. of New York, now-one of the two operating subsidiaries of merger-born Socony-Vacuum Corp). Socony is a Chinese institution. Socony has sold kerosene in China for more than 50 years.* Socony's agents are venerated in the community. Socony's ships thoughtfully slow down so that their wash will not upset frail sampans bound down river...
...people could translate their numbers into anything even as memorable as "Plesido." For example, best that Owen D. Young could get out of his Butterfield 8-2765 would be AV U A ROK? George Fisher Baker Jr.'s Atwater 9-2360 makes nothing better than BUY A FOO...