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...replies, 'I ain't stud'in' 'bout car'in' you to no dance. Heah you is doin' ugly all de time wid dat sloo-footed nigger from over on Triumph and won't give nobody else none, den you comes axin' me to care you to de dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delta in Detail | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Students whose card tastes run only as far as Seven Card Stud, or even the more elite Contract flends may be interested to learn that the University owns a pack of Hindustani cards invented by a queen to prevent her husband from pulling out the hairs in his beard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library's Exhibit Features Unusual Hindustani Cards | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

Manhattan city editors sometimes refer to the New York Social Register as the Stud Book. A stud book lists well-bred horses; the Register (supposedly) lists well-bred people. But while a stud book follows a consistent adherence to blood lines, the Register is often oddly inconsistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In & Out | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...though Plunger "Chicago" O'Brien once wagered $100,000 on him at 1-to-100, and picked up an easy $1,000. Big Red's owner, Pennsylvanian Sam Riddle, once refused a $1,000,000 offer for his wonder horse. Riddle retired him to stud in the prime of his career. "Improving the breed," now a worn-penny phrase spoken cynically around the tracks, had meaning in Man o' War's case. Only the choicest mares were bred to Man o' War-at $5,000 a try. The results were top quality, as with everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Red | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...German 208 Widener J Government 7a Paine Hall Government 13b Harvard 6 Government 36 Harvard 136 History 33b Sover 35 History 69a Hunt, Large Rm Indic Philology 1a Widener A Indic Philology 2 Widener A Indic Philology 4 Widener A Indic Philology 6 Widener A Int'l. &Reg'l. Stud. 12a Bolyston 28 Mathematics 9a Sover 36 Mathematics 13a Sover 6 Mathematics 15 Semitic Mus. 2 Philosophy 7a Emerson A Philosophy 8 Emerson F Philosophy 9c Emerson A Philosophy 36 Emerson R Physics 41a Malliuckrodt MR23 Portuguese lab Boylston 20 Portuguese 10 Little 18 Scandinavian 11 Sover 24 Slavic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADDITIONAL CHANGES OF CLASSROOMS | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

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