Word: oxen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election in a key State where the Republicans have a chance to win. He also is a maybe-maybe-not prospect for the U. S. Supreme Court. At all events he is a devoted friend and follower of Franklin Roosevelt. But now one of his pet oxen was being gored. Although politicians have long assured businessmen and others that it is perfectly proper for Congressional investigations to permit biased witnesses to air scandalous charges against honest citizens, in this case Franklin Roosevelt reacted like any indignant businessman...
...pioneer wagon had reached a little bridge just outside the town, and the Warreners were on hand in large numbers. Chief Bull struck the first blow. Leaping on one of the oxen, he tore at the harness traces. The driver of the wagon lashed out with his horse whip, and Bull took a called strike...
...more than 40,000 voortrekkers had made the journey, resettled themselves on the new lands. It is the adventures of such a wagon train that Author Cloete (pronounced "Clooty") describes. Made up of 500-odd persons, with 100 wagons and a miscellaneous herd of 8,000 goats, cows, oxen, horses to be nudged and nursed through the wilderness, it moved like an ambling village, its scouts fanned out before it to hunt game and fight off raiders, and births, deaths and marriages taking place in the wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik...
...Slaughter's Coffee House in London, and formed the first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the same year they induced Parliament to pass a bill to punish persons who ''wantonly and cruelly" beat or ill-treated horses, mares, geldings, mules, asses, oxen, cows, heifers, steers, sheep...
...plain by such order lists as the one above which is just part of the menu for a 1468 dinner tendered two English statesmen. Or, if you are still hungry just peruse the following food which required 62 chefs to prepare for a contemporary spread. Six wild bulls, 104 oxen, 400 swine, 1000 mutton, 1200 quail, 304 stags, and 3000 pigs were among the delicate offered to the gathering of 4000. Just what percentage of the 4000 had another little snack at bedtime is not mentioned...