Word: sheep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxidermist, George K. Cherrie, landed at Boston with photographs of bearded, turbaned Roosevelts, with wild tales of riding surly, pack-yaks, and with first-hand news of the 750 birds and 250 animals "of great scientific value" that they had collected, including spiral-horned Ovis poll (Marco Polo sheep), goitered gazelles, shaggy ibexes, shaggier Asian bears, long-haired tigers and smaller, rarer fauna, scarce or unknown in U. S. museums; just as James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Co. (Chicago department store), was congratulating himself and being congratulated that the expedition he had financed was a complete success...
...colleagues were engrossed with the correction of examination papers. Hundreds of dismissal slips were issuing from the offices of the deans. He felt he was not talking wildly but as a man of reason. It seemed clear to him that there were at least 1,000 black sheep scampering around the campus, leading astray at least 2,000 weakling sheep who might, in good company, be persuaded to study. "We could," he said, "save the people of this state $500,000 a year...
...considerable portion of the French would welcome further opportunity to prove Germany guilty. During the long, cold winter, they could relive the glorious days of victory. Under the overwhelming influence of the Allies, there is little likelihood of the Assembly exonerating the black sheep of Europe...
Ivan Mestrovic was born in 1883 in Slavonia. He received little better early schooling than was given other peasant boys of his age. For several years he tended sheep in Dalmatia for his Croatian parents. Later he moved to Spalato where he was apprenticed to a master mason. He then determined to become a sculptor and managed to scrape together sufficient funds for study in Vienna. In 1902 his first public exhibition was held. Since then his works have appeared several times in America and in all the great centers of Europe. Mestrovic is now Rector of the Academy...
Ivan Mestrovic once tended sheep in a valley in Dalmatia. In copying the reliques of Greek and Roman art he showed such ability that his father apprenticed him to a master mason. In 1911 he won the Prix de Rome. Almost all important capitals have seen exhibitions of his work...