Word: holstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month had Bull Durham encountered Romance. Then suddenly 35,000 billboards throughout the land proclaimed the news. Advertisements showed a picture of him pasted on the side of a barn. Before the picture, big eyes ogling, tongue hanging out in an expression of lugubrious passion, stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned "Her Hero." Motorists grinned. Advertising men, seeing in it a burlesque of sex-appealing tobacco advertisements, thought it smart. But to the churchwomen of Willow Glen, a suburb of San Jose, Calif., it was the epitome of bad taste, an affront to California womanhood. Last...
...passionate Holstein was the inspiration of Comic Artist John Held Jr. Whether Durham's bull would mate with Held's Holstein and produce a family of bullock Durhams no one knew last week...
...late 1870's a woodcarver named Dirks left his home in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, and shipped himself, wife and nine children to the New World where he settled down in Chicago's West Side lumber yard and railroad district. One son, Rudolph, soon picked up broken English, discarded newspapers which he sold for 1? profit, and a knack of drawing. In time he | drifted to New York, originated in 1897 a color page of comics called "The Katzenjammer Kids," became one of the world's most beloved cartoonists...
Bismarck's important decisions in the crises brought on by the disputes over the Schleswig-Holstein provinces in 1863 and 1864, furnishes the material for "The Schleswig-Holstein Question" by L. D. Steefel '16, Professor at the University of Minneapolis. The book is the study of the machinations of Bismarck and takes one side of a controversial subject. It is said that Bismarck was not included in Lord Palmerston's list of those who really understood the complexities of the Schleswig-Holstein question, but Professor Steefel believes that he deserved to head...
...Holstein-Fries!an World Lacona...