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...months ago, Pan-Dee, hopefully regarded by the Zoo as a prospective sire, began to act more & more ladylike...
...mind and he wanted to hold a conference. He summoned the Royal Wizard, who appeared in a cloud of smoke. "Just come in the room like anybody else," bawled the king indignantly, "Bad enough ... to appear in a flash of lightning . . . smells up the whole castle." "Yes, Sire," said the Wizard...
...their output fairly well until about 50. But the peak of greatness occurs much earlier. Although there are many individual exceptions, most of the great operas, novels, paintings, scientific discoveries, etc. have been produced by men just rounding 30. This, he finds, coincides with the age at which men sire most children and break most sports records...
...smalltime circuit, Frenchy knew a good horse when he saw one. In August 1943, he saw one at a Chicago track. Despite a game front leg, Happy Issue ran the way Frenchy liked-fast from behind. Her breeding was none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high regard. He took the plunge, led away Happy Issue from a claiming race...
...eyes." He marched up & down in front of her, placing one foot, encased in a golden, gem-encrusted slipper, directly before the other, as if performing some intricate drill. Suddenly he shouted: "How old shall you be?" Anna was so angry she replied: "One hundred and fifty years old, Sire." The King coughed, laughed, coughed, said, "In what year were you borned?" When Anna said, "1712," the King asked, "How many years shall you be married?" When Anna replied, "Several years," the monarch thought hard, finally roared out, "How many grandchildren shall you have by now? Ha, ha! How many...