Word: swine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they rise at 3 o'clock for lauds, and at 5 o'clock go each to his post: some to herd swine, some to cultivate the fields, some to clerks' desks. Each day has periods for prayer and meditation. To prior and sub-priors they owe utter obedience...
...Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine!" "No," is the answer, " 'sapplejack." Its first evening, The Houseboat on the Styx mounted at moments to hilarity. Its songs, while not entirely novel, were cheering...
Hundreds of animals-cattle, swine, sheep, horses-were led into the crowded stockyard amphitheatre. Dick won the junior feeding contest, the prize for the best Hereford yearling, the grand prize for the best yearling, and $800 prize money for Clarence. Clarence was satisfied and wanted to go home to State Centre. But W. L. Blizzard of Stillwater, Okla., who awarded one of the prizes, told Clarence to enter Dick for the grand champion prize. Clarence consented, but would not lead Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took...
Plebeian hogs have no figures. Plebeian hogs are squat, short-legged, roly-poly, fat. But blue-ribbon hogs are slender, graceful, meaty. Reason, as revealed at the American Royal Live Stock Show (Kansas City), last week, by able Swine Inspector E. Z. Russell of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture...
...insult were cast in their direction. The crew of a flag-ship always has a lot to live down. The badinage became more irritating; the rebuttal more spirited. Finally some intrepid soul had the temerity to observe that the crew of the Texas were fed in the manner of swine in comparison with the luxurious fare meted out aboard the Arkansas. This was too much. With righteous indignation the worthy Texans plunged into battle royal in resentment of such scandalous libel directed against the accommodations of their floating home...