Word: boar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boar for his birthday...
...Chinese Monad: its History and Meaning. While Doom hummed with Monarchist delegations, Wilhelm decorated his head gardener and eight under-gardeners with the Royal Order of the House of Hohenzollern, led another religious service for his kin and house servants, inspected tons of birthday gifts including one huge wild boar (live) and bushels of congratulations. Protesting that "the only birthdays worth making memorable are those marking decades," he reminded his guests that in five years he will...
...behavior of one who, although he is my uncle, should know better. . . . I refer to the Duke of Westminster. He is one of the richest Englishmen. His money should do good in and to England. Instead of shouldering his responsibilities, he has two houses in France, a pack of boar hounds also in France, a yacht on which he spends a good deal of his time in foreign waters, and now I see he is no longer going to have any race horses in England. He has sent his string over to France. Is this setting a good example? "Dukes...
Poet Masefield has often confessed that the excitement of strong emotion is his chief aid in producing poetry, but the excitement must be definitely nonmechanical. To escape the sound of airplanes flying over his home at Boar's Hill, Oxford he moved this year into the countryside of Gloucestershire (TIME, Jan. 2). Sadly last week the Poet Laureate summed up: "Poets have begun to think they are no longer wanted by the world. Poetry has been separated from the heart of the world...
...Finns last week shared honors when Finland paid: staunch, old President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (properly translated "Boar's Head" not "Pig's Head") and smart, young Chairman Risto Ryti of the Bank of Finland. Scrupulous, they paid in full-$148,592. No fools, they paid in silver which cost Finland 36? per ounce on the world market last week but was accepted as worth 50? per ounce by the U. S. Treasury under the Thomas amendment to President Roosevelt's Agricultural Relief Act (TIME, May 22). Great powers which did not pay in full (thus placing themselves...