Word: herds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared the hesitant fireman of the Norrland Express. Grudgingly he admitted that he had known for a long time that Engineer Erik was epileptic, had maniacal tendencies. First inkling of Erik's madness, said the fireman, came one night when the Norrland Express ran full speed into a herd of reindeer that had gathered on the track. Said the fireman...
Emanuel. In Northamptonshire, England, at 800-year-old Rockingham Castle which they have leased for the past three years and where the yews are cut to resemble a herd of elephants, Mr. & Mrs. Victor Emanuel?he is president of United States Electric Power Corp.?gave a ball one night last week to 500 guests...
...effect that the Universities of importance in this country only numbered about eight has drawn up a tentative list of these educational greats with Harvard at the head. It is very flattering to be named one of the elect, but the colleges relegated to the common herd with nothing to their credit presumably but pretensions to greatness must feel rather keenly the injustice of such sweeping statements...
...only slightly amusing to the cynic. More pleasing was the image of the battered advocate of companionate marriage, who is sincere if nothing else, being snatched from the rioters by four burly detectives. Howis of glee must attend the non-partisan when he reads that this formally attired herd docilely returned to their pews, no longer menaced by the black sheep, sand "Fight the Good Fight" and then shouted "God bless Bishop Manning!" The Church Militant...
...Battle Creek, his legal residence, dare not talk. Dr. Carrie S. Staines Kellogg, 63, his second wife, who practices at Battle Creek, minds her own patients, not his business. Nor is there much small talk about him at Pomona, Calif., where he is breeding the largest registered herd of Arabian horses in the U. S. Hence his public reputation for dourness...