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...would have been in the soup line by this time except you grabbed hold of the public teat and have been milking $10,000 a year out of the taxpayers. You would really be worth more to the nation if you were cleaning up the waste behind a good herd of cows...
...walrus-mustached British General named Robert Cornells Napier landed on the coast of Eritrea with 32,000 men, six cannon and a herd of baggage elephants. Into Ethiopia they marched to punish Emperor Theodore for the torture and imprisonment of a group of British officers. Three months later the British column had fought its way some 400 miles inland and had defeated Theodore's tribesmen at Magdala. Emperor Theodore promptly blew his brains out with a revolver presented to him by Queen Victoria. By June 18, five months after the expedition had started, the last British soldier had left...
...Stuart, founder of Carnation Co., established this herd of pure bred Holsteins over a quarter century ago, and has paid as high as $106,000 for a bull. Other leaders of the industry who get pleasure and relaxation as well as a sense of service to agriculture through their Hoistem breeding efforts are Colonel H. F du Pont of Delaware; Colonel Fred Pabst of Milwaukee-George Rasmussen of National Tea: E. H. Maytag of washing-machine fame: F. E. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune; Governor Lowden of Illinois; T.B. Macaulay of the Sun Life in Canada; Ogden Mills, Owen...
...nine o'clock every morning except Sunday a herd of scholars scampers hastily up the steps of Widener Library, swishes through the turnstiles, rounds the marble stairways in stride, and finally deposits an overnight book on the Reading Room desk. The return journey is completed with equal haste, minus a few tedious and precious minutes while the unsmiling book inspector carefully Philo Vances every brief case, lawyers bag, and simple booksatchel. Such expenditure of energy and valuable pre-nine-o'clock time is not only highly inconvenient but unnecessary...
...chief recreation is his herd of milk goats. Goat milk is valuable in the treatment of certain infants' diseases, and anyone with a sick child can call at General Falk's farm and get without charge all the goats' milk he can carry away...