Word: boar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banners blazon forth the particular peculiarities of the inhabitants of the side show; and above it all, the calliope sounds the motif of a gala occasion in the life of every farmer--the state fair. Into this bucolic paradise, Abel Frake drives his Ford, his family, and his Hampshire boar Blue...
...boar, under the invigorating influence of a comely sow who makes eyes at him from the next pen, wins the blue ribbon. Wayne, Abel's son, takes revenge on a loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their...
...France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf Lieutenant of Rambouillet, ancient office to protect districts from wolves, now an excuse with police privileges to hunt boar in the state forests...
Preparing to depart for a U. S. lecture tour, Britain's melancholy-looking Poet Laureate John Masefield announced he would not return to his famed home and private theatre on Boar's Hill near Oxford, would reside instead in Pinbury, Gloucestershire. Reason: the roaring planes of a new airfield two miles from Boar's Hill...
...second breeding, the Association will pay half the cost of a pure bred boar. The farmer must pay for cholera-vaccination of all pigs. When the two litters have been raised he may either buy put the Association's interest in his breeding stock or sell back...