Word: percheron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger to Soviet propaganda trials was the prosecutor. Stocky Andrey Y. Vyshinsky, decorated like a prize Percheron with the ribboned rosette of the Order of the Red Flag, served as presiding judge at another Soviet circus, the famed Shakhta Trial of five years ago (TIME, July 2, 1928 et seq.). But the presiding judge last week was not at all what foreign correspondents expected. Judge Vassily Ulrich, a chubby, baldish, moon-faced little fellow, was amiable, quite as eager to exchange quips with witnesses as any periwigged British magistrate...
...exaggerated enthusiasm for his shipbuilding concern makes him, at first, a monster. He wants nothing but a son to carry on his name and when his wife dies, in furnishing him with one, he shows a callous gratification. The story plods on, a pony with the manners of a percheron, while the son dies (of a cold caught at a ship's christening), while the shipbuilder's neglected daughter marries a minor employe, while the shipbuilder himself marries a precarious blonde and gives her $250,000. The shipbuilder finally has reverses which cause him to become dejectedly deranged...
...Percheron horse who has had a mild case of diphtheria for almost nine years wore a garland of flowers around his neck for a party last week. He was 14-year-old Doc Dobbin, oldest diphtheria antitoxin horse in the laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons at New Brunswick, N. J. Because Doc Dobbin has produced antitoxin enough to treat 30,000 children, Dr. John F. Anderson, Squibb vice president, gave a birthday party on the anniversary of Doc Dobbin's ninth year of service. One hundred school children from Highland Park, N. J. attended. The birthday table...