His skin was of a rich flower-pot red from sun and wind.

Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.

The latter I demur, for in their looks / Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.

Some years ago, when I was connected with the Arizona Experiment Station, some efforts in that direction were being made with a plant grown down in that country called Canigre. That is a plant that grows wild in certain sections of the Southwest, but because of its being a two-year crop and because of the fact that in order to make it productive, a very large amount of water was required, which made it an irrigation proposition, we determined that it would be an unprofitable crop at that time.