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Sponsored by five very various organizations, the show was composed of properly variegated inclusions. There was nothing in it of breathtaking excellence; Albert Laessle's Billy, a statue of a capricious goat, was much admired by visiting children. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, whose Appeal to the Great Spirit, stands in front of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sent in several small bronzes; Richard Recchia showed his Frog Mountain. There were, perhaps, too many fat little boys squirting water and too many totally unimportant garden decorations...
...distinctive personality and appearance resembles some animal. Senator Borah is a bear; Secretary Mellon, an aging horse of fine blood; Senator Heflin, an astounding whale calf; Senator Johnson, a caged lion; Senator Norris, an owl; Senator Watson, a roguish elephant; Charles Evans Hughes, a lofty mountain goat; Will H. Hays, a monkey; Curtis Dwight Wilbur, a stork. Herbert Clark Hoover is a beaver-man, aged 53, in his prime...
...represented, "with exactitude," the constellations of the stars. Silversmiths made the "undignified fanatic" his globe. It was about twelve inches in diameter; its surface was carved with those bizarre and threatening shapes with which the ancients first identified the golden processionals of the sky. No celestial beast was missing; goat, unicorn, fish, lion, hurrying crab crowds its shining convexity. After the death of the astronomer, his globe became famous in the country that had laughed at its inventor. A succession of noble families enjoyed its possession; it was spoken of as "the great astronomical ball." A month ago, Baron Ralamb...
...nanny goat's baggy profile decorated one newspaper advertisement last week, and a billy goat's shaggy profile another during the same week. The billy goat invited attention to the versatility of the Seaboard National Bank, whose officers constantly dealt with matters as far away and, as far separated as Oregon and Texas, where goats abound. The nanny goat's business was more intimate. She "was pertly stating in type that a concern across the continent from the billy's bank was selling canned goat milk "for babies, delicate children and invalids . . . who cannot assimilate cows...
...nanny flicked her beard at a paragraph: "Goat milk is recognized by medical authorities as the ideal food for babies, or adults with weakened digestive powers. The American Medical Journal says 'Goats' milk is the purest, most healthful and complete human food known.' Alpure is 100% goats' milk, with nothing added. Evaporation under sanitary conditions retains all nutritive elements...