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...Forest also knew the Southern admiration for virility: "If you will fight, if you are strong and skillful enough to kill your antagonist, if you can govern or influence the common herd ... if you stand by your opinions unflinchingly, if you do your level best on whiskey, if you are a devil of a fellow with women, if, in short, you show vigorous masculine attributes, he will grant you his respect...
...silverware whose chief virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive park, boots out the "useful" cow that grazes there and replaces it with a herd of useless deer...
...vacation, it seemed that he would have little trouble collecting the 167,000 signatures he needed. But if Michigan Republicans could not get together behind him-and the Democrats could patch up their own internal feuding-there was a good chance that he would not be around to ride herd again after the November elections...
...This article states: "Mrs. Riddle provided a blooded herd (one Guernsey cow cost $60,000) for the instruction...
...Toombs County, Ga., a herd of hogs was fattened up on three carloads of fruitcake-Army surplus, declared unfit for human consumption...