Word: boar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, when the museum's new Hall of Reptiles was opened for the first time by President Henry Fairfield Osborn, distinguished visitors could see two nightmares poised fighting over a wild boar. A third one, a female, glared, waiting division of the lizard kill...
...fashioned house set in an old-fashioned garden, half way up a verdant incline called Boar's Hill on the outskirts of the ancient university town of Oxford, Poet Laureate Robert Bridges* celebrated the 83rd anniversary of his birth. He passed the day quietly receiving many callers, from hoary...
...things and turned up its collective nose at what Dr. Bridges did give it. The matter became serious; the murmuring grew to open and vociferous criticism. The public grievance was even aired in Parliament. But all this fuss and pother was to no avail. When the "old man" on Boar's Hill heard about it, he said unpoetically: "I don't give a damn!" When the public heard that, it rather liked it. and settled down to like Dr. Bridges, just as it had settled down to like Queen Victoria after decades of indecorous criticism...
...chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their showcase will be a placard explaining again that they were varanus komodensis, giant monitor lizards, descendants of Mesozoic dinosaurs, nocturnal, rapaciously carnivorous, fleet of foot, deaf, strong enough to slay a horse...
American Tobacco (Lucky Strike, Herbert Tareyton, Blue Boar, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Natural, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal cigarets, Buckingham, Half & Half, Tuxedo, Bull Durham tobaccos) made net income of $22,499,648 last year...