Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waring, with 2,000 laying hens, is on the fringe of commercial chicken farming, and Teller raises Cheviot sheep to be sold for breeding purposes. But they raise most of their own foodstuffs, most of their animal feeds, and they stuff themselves and their families with eggs, chicken, mutton and milk...
...battle with Miss Bennett over the trust fund, she promised that if she got to the witness stand she would give a complete account of her life with Plant. The matter was settled out of court. Miss Bennett picked up her baggage and doll and returned to her theatrical mutton...
There was some discussion as to just why that canine was barking so petulantly at Jawn Harvard the other morning during muster, and the best explanation seems to be that they tried to pass off another mutton bone on him at the Union. If he'd had a little more time he'd probably have had all the student officers barking with...
Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande...
...plus two equals four reminds me of the late dynamic Thomas Balmer. . . . When he was Western representative of the Butterick Publishing Co. (Delineator), 40 years ago, and I was a budding young advertising man from Honolulu, he took me to lunch in Chicago. While waiting for the English mutton chops at St. Hubert's Inn, he popped the question, "How many are two and two?" I baruchly gave the answer, "Four, of course." "Young man." he sternly corrected, "you will never succeed in advertising until you learn that two and two can make...