Word: mongrel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific breezes make days pleasant and nights chill, for 50 years Naturalist Luther Burbank has been making a bit of desert bloom weirdly yet profitably. Since 1875 he has been on his experiment farm mating pistils to stamens in strange concubinage, getting sometimes a beautiful scion, sometimes a grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn that grows eight feet tall and produces...
Suddenly the two foxes began to interweave their trails. The mongrel and aristocratic canine pursuers became hopelessly entangled and started fighting among themselves. Scandalized, the Surrey Union Huntsmen rode up and tried to disperse the mongrel pack by a drastic and ungentle plying of whips Their morning had gone simply blotto.* Their tempers were up, and mongrel hides offered a safe issuance for spleen. It did not occur to them that the whelps might belong to anybody...
CONSCIENCE?A mongrel mixture of good and bad playwriting made persuasive by Lillian Foster's performance of the girl who went wrong when her husband went to jail...