Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the College of William and Mary. That a man should at one time or another have tended grape vines is no cause for his friends to be ashamed. The popular Abel was a stockbreeder; Abraham Lincoln functioned as ploughman; King David tended sheep-as did Ramsay Mac-Donald; Cincinnatus was twice called from the plough to the Dictatorship of -and twice returned to it; Rousseau was a son of a humble Geneva watchmaker; the famed Dr. Johnson was a son of a poor bookseller; Christopher Columbus helped his father to comb wool; Thomas Alva...
...GUARDSMAN?Luxurious nonsense about a great actor sheep who arrayed himself in seducer wolf's disguise to test his wife's fidelity. Molnar's play, Theatre Guild production, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the brilliant leads...
...power. His themes are highly dramatic?heroic figures, gaining in a sort of grim majesty what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with his art. Born of Croatian parents?farming peasants? as a boy he wandered the fields, tending sheep, carving in wood. The long hours alone with his fleecy flock did much to develop in him the curious individuality which has always been his notable characteristic. At 18, he was apprenticed to a marble worker; and, a few years later, went to Vienna and took up the study...
...sacrifices to the God of Abraham, they followed a ritual in their slaughter of the beast which was both humane and sanitary. Using a long, smooth blade, twice the width of the animal's throat, they severed with a delicate stroke, scrupulously exact, the fourth ventricle of the trembling sheep, permitting the body to lie undisturbed until the blood had thoroughly drained from its lax veins. The ritual has never changed. Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat. If there is any blemish in the manner of the killing, the meat...
Wrote Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert of the New York Evening Post: "At a luncheon party of the sheep and the goats-that is to say, at a luncheon party where some were New Englanders ar.cl some were not-up spoke one of the sheep and said: 'I wonder if President Coolidge will run again in 1928?' ". . . Up spoke one of the goats: 'Well, you as a New Englander ought to know better than any of us.' Then another New Englander had this to say: 'Right after Mar. 4, 1929, Mr. Coolidge will become President...