Word: boar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tall, white-bearded, leonine, he walks scholarly, reflective paths at his home on Boar's Hill, near Oxford. Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...
...Tobacco still holds a dominant position in the trade, is said to handle one-third each of the cigaret and smoking tobacco business, and one-fourth of the plug business. Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most of its 1929 advertising budget of $12,300,000 was spent. The campaign was directed almost entirely by the company's President George Washington Hill. Born of rich parents...
...Blue Boar 1.45 Lucky Strike Plug...
...spite of the soundness of President Boar's pedagogic ideas, they did not bear fruit. It was not until one hundred and fifty years later, that Justus Liebig established his famous chemical laboratory at the University of Giessen and demonstrated to the world the unique value of a laboratory for instruction and training in chemistry and, indeed, in science in general...
...great displeasure of the crowd, or so it was manifested, the fire was under control in unusually short time, being confined early to the main room, where the furniture was completely destroyed, and the walls badly blistered. A piano and a handsomely mounted boar's head, which was subsequently thrown out the window, its mouth spitting flames, were other miscellaneous items that were destroyed. Damages were estimated variously, the amounts ranging around an approximate figure of $5,000. It was rumored late last night that the Club was uninsured against fire, so that the ultimate expense will fall upon...