Word: litters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Mrs. Charles's cousin; a Chinese restaurateur (William Law) who looks like an owl, and a dancing girl (Dorothy McNulty), one of whose relatives is one of the total of three corpses discovered in the course of the entertainment. Good shot: Asta, inspecting his mate's litter of puppies, amazed to find a black one that looks like the Scotty next door...
...University of California, a female rat known as BH-17543 gave birth to a litter of 18. Previous record for a litter of rats...
...nearly always the case in London, the sport was founded on a letter to the editor of the Times. A gentleman had an idea, he wrote in, the letter was published and the game was born. . . . His description of the 'squealing up,' with his groundskeeper, of a litter of fox cubs will give an idea of the fascination of the sport...
...passengers in 1935. An increase of almost 50% over 1934, it was the first time busses had handled more traffic than their biggest rivals. To keep pace with this new business, the largest U. S. bus line, Greyhound Corp., last week whelped the first 25 of a litter of 305 new busses, completely outmoding present standard equipment...
...Rodeheaver explained that Negro spirituals had taken him to Africa. Raised in Jellicoe, Tenn., birthplace of Soprano Grace Moore, he knew black amoor harmonies and rhythms early, claims credit for popularizing them as early as 1917. In the Congo, in which he traveled 1.500 miles by Ford, bicycle, canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals on his battered trombone, often starting alone in a clearing and eventually attracting 1,000 or so black heathens. Sending word of his imminence by their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi...