Word: mares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leading lady horse shower was grey-haired Mrs. Loula Long Combs, a Kansas City horsewoman with 30 years of National competition behind her. Mrs. Combs' harness horses won her eight first-place blue ribbons. A brown mare named Admiration helped her to five of them...
...appropriated for in the present push to reach the quotas are 87 vessels, including besides the North Carolina and Washington three aircraft carriers, ten cruisers, 55 destroyers and 17 submarines, the keel for one of which, the Swordfish, was laid last week at the Navy's yard in Mare Island, Calif. Only nation to admit to bigger naval rearmament is Great Britain, whose 285 vessels are being increased by 96, including five battleships...
...part of the program of the Central Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Dr. Morris Edward Davis of Chicago announced that he can make certain women, who are sterile because their ovaries produce no ova, capable of having babies by injecting them with serum taken from the blood of a pregnant mare. Dr. Davis' mare serum hormone in unascertained fashion reuses the ovaries to their natural functions. Said he last week: "We have positive proof that a single injection of this hormone is enough to provide full development and ovulation. This opens a tremendous field. We can overcome sterility in many...
...legends of Gene Fowler's newspaper life, his bawdy ballads, crotchets and Hollywood adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema...
...Fashioned Reguish Manner--in Rondo Form" is a long title but highly appropriate for one of his shorter tone poems, which is also to be heard tonight. When first performed in Boston in 1896, it encountered a most cold reception and phrases such as "a blood-curdling night-mare," "a musical obscenity," and "a noisy, nerve-destroying, heavy piece of work" were recklessly hurled at the composer. Since that time, the real humor in the piece has come to be more appreciated and the clever orchestration has made it a familiar concert vehicle...