Word: boar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English festivities, including the bringing in of the Yule log, the processional bearing of the boar's head, and the baron of beef, are being revived this Christmas and New Year's season at the Chateau Frontenac, on the site of the ancient Fort Saint Louis, in Quebec...
Yugoslavia is a country half as large as France. Within its borders the World War was started, regicides are bred, opium is produced and the best wild boar shooting in Europe is found. The world of art knows just one Yugoslav name-Ivan Mestrovic, one of the greatest living sculptors. Last week Mrs. Marie Sterner Lintott, a talented ferret among modern artists, discovered another, Maximilian Vanka. At her Manhattan gallery she put on view 15 darkly colorful Vanka canvases...
...with preparations to give Consort Henry the sort of funeral he had said he wanted. When he came as a bridegroom to Holland in 1901, Prince Henry, fourth son of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburg, was considered by the Dutch people most handsome but too frivolous. He introduced boar hunting and Dutch farmers were furious. But Prince Henry proved adaptable. He learned to sit expressionless beside Her Majesty in the State Coach, looking neither to right nor left, while she did the bowing and smiling. Dutchmen nodded grave approval when the Queen was reported to have said: "At home...
...College) as an undergraduate. Already established as one of the outstanding poets of the War, he turned his pen to many a subject to keep the pot boiling, wrote on everything from the interpretation of dreams to the future of swearing. Other occupations included keeping a shop on Boar's Hill, outside Oxford, school-teaching in Egypt. His friend Shaw once helped him out of a financial slough by presenting him with one of the rare copies of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom, telling him to sell it when read. Five years ago Author Graves left England, now lives...
...class is unable to boar the weight of this scholastic burdon for long--and from here its history rushes to the end, finishing inspite of this ugly Intrusion with the coy faminine giggle--"we leave the school choolt full of our youthful arrogance and know-it-all, and we fool ourselves to be the best yet. Just wait...