Word: herds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...James Aloysius Farley, for engineering his election to the Presidency. Last week he warmly welcomed to the White House a whole troupe of great big Elks headed by their Grand Exalted Ruler. But the Elks in the President's office were not of Elk Farley's herd...
...Other Negro fraternal orders include: Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia; Knights of Pythias (Eastern and Western Hemisphere); Grand United Order of Fishermen of Galilee; Grand United Order of Galilean Fishermen; Improved Benevolent Order of Reindeer; Benevolent Protective Herd of Buffaloes of the World; Improved Benevolent Protective Order of the Moose of the World; Grand United Order of Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters o Moses-Grand United Order of Tents of J. B Giddings and Jollifee Union; Royal Circle of Friends of the World; Supreme Circle of Benevo-lence...
Your science editor would have really distinguished himself from the herd in reporting quake-quack Greenspan (TIME, July 22) if he had footnoted somewhat as follows...
...unabashed lover of tall tales and hard riding, Author Otero remembers seeing a herd of buffalo so large that it was still in sight after a day's train ride. He saw a great part of the West's liquor supply tied up when the Whiskey Ring fraud exposures led to government seizure of his father's liquor stores. He went on the famed buffalo hunt of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, when the special escort, commanded by Generals Sheridan and Custer, included the West's most distinguished plainsmen. A master of understatement, Author Otero barely...
...bought a $10,000 herd of dairy cattle. For some cows it paid $950 although they had been offered previously for $200 apiece. The rich milk from the expensive herd was then traded for low-grade milk from commercial dairies. "Just why ... is not apparent," said the McCarl report...