Word: herefords
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...Bing Crosby's nonchalant but thoroughly mellifluous barytone is pleasantly used to punctuate a mildly satiric investigation of the rodeo business. By entering every event at Madison Square Garden, Jeff Larabee manages to squeeze out enough prize money to cover the price of Cuddles, a gigantic curly-haired Hereford bull. In Cuddles' box car, on the way back to the ranch where he is a cowhand, he discovers a pretty stowaway (Frances Farmer) who turns out to be his employer's niece. By the time this relationship has had its anticipated effect on their romance-amusement...
...China's Chengting T. Wang, spoke eloquently upon the ill will rampant in the world today. But when the Rotary Club of Barking, England proposed to put the united shoulder of Rotary International behind the wheel of Peace, the convention split. Cried Rotarian Cyril Franklin, a Briton from Hereford: "If Rotary wants to leave its past policy of inspiring individual Rotarians to active support of outside peace movements, we will be playing with fire. If Rotary splits into parties with national points of view, what will be left? The resolution is full of dynamite-apt to blow...
...three years pestered Crooner Rudy Vallee by visiting his office, announcing that he is her husband, father of her six children. Sold in Los Angeles for a U. S. stock show record price of 35? per lb. was a carload of William Randolph Hearst's prize Hereford cattle...
...King George V's own shire stallion, Field, Marshal V, modeled in 1921 when he was still a prize winner. Red and sleek in Acajou marble was the magnificent champion Shorthorn bull, Bridgebank Pay master, winner of the British and Scotch championships three years, in a row. A Hereford bull champion, Twyford Fairy Boy, with grey-green coat of gold plated bronze, stood 18 in. high, 30 in. from rump to horns. There were two Lincoln rams, their fleece rendered in coarse-grained Burgandy stone. The great Middle White champion boar, Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last...
...fourth day, Walter Biggar stepped to the centre of the arena to judge the champion steer. In the ring were four finalists-a Hereford, a Shorthorn, two Anguses. One of the Anguses belonged to Oakleigh Thorne. Mr. Thorne could not forget that no individual had ever won the championship twice, that his entry in the ring, Briarcliff Model, was heavier (1,217 Ib.) than was nowadays popular. Judge Biggar passed his sensitive hands over well-meated ribs, examined shoulders, circled again & again. Finally he pointed to Briarcliff Model. There was applause. By now Farmer Thorne was an upstart Eastern breeder...