Word: shorthorn
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Capper wrested her title from an English shorthorn named Cherry. Cherry had taken her record from Capper's older half-sister, Carnation Orrnsby Butter King, who-according to Capper's press agent-died shortly afterwards of a broken heart...
...another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carroll, Ill., just hung on, let her Hereford shift his steaks however it suited him. Her bare knees shook with excitement in her half-length boots...
...crowd with her, as Judge Yule well knew. He fiddled with a Canadian $5 gold piece on his watch chain. He felt the tailhead of Canadian-bred Shorthorn and U. S.-bred Hereford, poked ribs, chest, shoulders like a house guest poking the guest bed mattress. He tipped his hat forward, tipped it back. He held a whispered consultation with Armour & Co.'s portly old Colonel Edward Norris Wentworth, perennial ringmaster of livestock shows, who apparently gave him no help...
Pining for a sight of the Shorthorn cattle on his Texas ranch, bald Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, sighed: "I want to go home so bad I can taste it." His only worry was whether he could round up a quorum to vote adjournment. Many a Congressman had already slipped away, would hate to plod back just for the formality of a vote. If he did not get his quorum, the 76th Congress, still technically in session, might, like the hunters of the boojum, softly and silently vanish away...
...bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...