Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repeated. More than a hundred Astor pictures were sold in two days (for a total of $35,295) and John Ringling bought a great many of them, paying $1,750 for Ferdinand Roybet's "The Connoisseurs", $1,350 for a picture by Constant Troyon of a dog herding sheep. When the report of the sale appeared, certain supercilious people made bold to ask, "Since when have circus men been picture buyers...
...wholesome enterprise? Football has a thousand times as many virtues as vices. The game itself has no bad features. It is the emphasis which the public lends it, and if the vicious circle is started this results in distorting values among the players and coaches themselves. Hence the black sheep in this problem are the newspapers and football fans...
...Night Cry. There has never yet been a dog film that had a sensible plot. This one is the usual string of improbabilities pieced together to give Rin-Tin-Tin a chance. He, as a sheep dog, is accused of murdering baby lambs. Out of this cruel situation he extricates himself satisfactorily and (if you like Rin-Tin-Tin) entertainingly...
...Laplanders keep reindeer for milk: roving Tartars mares; Bedouins camels; pastoral tribes sheep; mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...
...also many of my acquaintances) by a single phrase in this morning's editorial on the new requirements for admission. In commending the proposed plan, the editorial notes that it helps to exclude from college a large unassimilable element, which includes "commuters". Now, thus to separate goats and sheep is most perturbing, especially since this classification is not zoological, but is based on a question of habitat...