Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breeding Dens on a ranch near Milwaukee. The 6,000 foxes are valued at about $1,500,000. Since 1917, the Fromms have sold $16,500,000 worth of pelts, with 1935 sales of $819,000, about 10% of the U. S. silver fox total. Fromm foxes mate in February, the titters appearing in 51 days. Biggest expense item, $300,000 a year, is fox food, mostly horse meat, oatmeal, eggs, fruits, vegetables, all served in sterilized bowls. Biggest risk is high fox mortality. In one year nearly half the Fromm foxes died of encephalitis, but now the Fromms have...
...office which he won as Herbert Hoover's running-mate in 1928 overwhelmed this onetime jockey and grandson of a Kaw Indian with a vast new selfimportance. He presided over the Senate with imposing dignity, began making dull speeches on all public occasions. Punctilious in his role as the Capital's No. 1 diner-out, he allowed his exuberant half-sister and official hostess to make a finish fight of her war for social precedence with the Speaker's lady, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Call me Mr. Vice President," he commanded his oldtime friends...
Terangi was an island aristocrat, a nature's nobleman and the promising mate of a trading schooner. He had been married just six weeks when one day ashore in Tahiti a drunken white man picked a fight with him. Terangi broke the boozer's jaw, was sentenced to six months in jail. Because he could not stand confinement and kept breaking out, his original sentence was soon stretched to six years. In despair, Terangi escaped once more, inadvertently killing a guard who was in his way. That meant a life-sentence...
...shore liberty, liable to a flogging at an officer's whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even the most hardened unfortunate 'seized up to' the grating at the gangway; six blows tore the flesh horribly, while after a dozen the back looked...
...particular, but it riles me to think that you consider these men-and other men of long-wealthy families-superior to me by birth. . . . The human race hasn't been worked on by professional breeders-yet. It's different with hogs, and guinea pigs. You can mate animals experimentally, and by doing a good job of matchmaking for many, many generations you can arrive at a "wellborn" hog and call it a Poland-China, or what not. But that's never been done with people, so why pretend it has? If a family can name its pappies...