Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...join the seven cats on the widow's back fence came the tomcat's second mate. She brought four kittens. The neighbors complained more vociferously, threw shoes, clocks, crockery. Six more cats came forth. The neighbors went to Spokane's Humane Society. The Humane Society went to Widow Dornsife. The widow produced cats Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22. The Health Department appealed to Widow Dornsife. Widow Dornsife shrugged her aged shoulders, seven more cats appeared. Officers went to the widow's house, were beaten back by 29 snarling, spitting cats...
...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise: his seventh race in a row, the Arlington Cup, at Chicago, in which Mate and Gusto were the only other horses entered: at odds of 1 to 4, by four lengths, with Gusto second...
...time passed the bull seemed to grow younger, more alert. He turned his head east again, became civilized, modest, stood behind a fence. Nine years ago he went into retirement, did not reappear until last summer, when he emerged, still proud & handsome, looking for a mate...
...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...