Word: siring
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Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull, sire of all the calves born on the Lewis farm at Burlington, N. J. Farmer Lewis' children were just as proud of a pet monkey their father had given them. All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine. Wary it avoided the bull-until one day last week...
...official facts on costly bank investments were revealed. A report was made by the sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency which began a dignified investigation of the U. S. banking system in February (TIME, Feb. 16). Chairman of the inquiry was Virginia's Senator Glass, legislative sire of the Federal Reserve and arch foe of stock speculation. Each Reserve district was asked: "On which type of investment do you find banks have suffered the largest losses?" Among the answers were...
...news has yet been received from my venerable sire in China, whom false, malicious rumor has reported still fleeing before the Japanese invasion. But knowing his disciples' voracious eagerness for his veracious analyses of gridiron contests, I ventured to substitute myself in the great man's place and predict for tomorrow major clashes: Dartmouth 7 Stanford 0 Yale 20 Princeton 3 Notre Dame 19 Army...
...last saw de Bosis some five years ago in his studio in the old wall of Rome. He had inherited the studio from Sir Moses Ezekiel, an American sculptor. Sir Moses, he told me, had been a second father to him after the death of his own sire, who was a well-known Italian poet...
...Mother Advocate's sixty-fifth birthday provides an occasion for declaring a verbal truce, however. Decked out in her new white party dress, with only a brightened green frill as a vestige of the by-gone years, she has made her dowager debut. Whereas Pegasus, her ancestral sire, has been rejuvenated by Spring, she has had a completely modern face-lifting. But the old lady was clever enough to realize the futility of mere external dressing up. A blood transfusion was made and in her haughty blue veins there now flow some new corpuscles--some with a crimson tinge...