Word: boar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee makes the awards; and the hogs are judged in a show ring where they are paraded skillfully. Never in Iowa would they suffer the injustice of being judged in their pens the way Phil Stong relates. State Fair is interesting-and accurate in describing the way a Hampshire boar eats out of his trough-but it is not sharp, exact detail of Iowa hog technique, a very important element in rural Iowa. KENNETH HINSHAW...
...children, Margy and Wayne, are not in such a happy state of mind. Before they left, Margy had quarreled with her boy Harry because he kissed her, Wayne with his girl Eleanor because she would not kiss him. But the only really unhappy one is Blue Boy, the Hampshire boar, who grunts in his crate at every bump. Blue Boy is going to the Fair, is going to win the Sweepstake prize. This truck ride bothers him, just the same, for as the hired man said, "No hawg is ever pleased...
...from rural England's maids, meadows, men and mud, Author Powys sticks to his increasingly familiar incantation like a leech. As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar. Only one newcomer is in the book, Last Comer Death...
...Svinhufvud, mistranslated "Pig's Head," means "Boar's Head." The name derives from the family crest, an aristocratic blazon which the Svinhufvuds share with the Dukes of Argyll, Harvard's Porcellian Club and Gordon...
Presidents of the only two republics with Prohibition are Herbert Clark Hoover and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. Not to be literally translated, "Pighead"' is the name -aristocratic in Finland-of President Svinhufvud, meaning "Boar's Head" (the device on the Svinhufvud family crest). No pighead, no bigot, the President takes an occasional glass of wine. Told last summer that President Hoover "never drinks," twinkling-eyed old President Svinhufvud chuckled: "It is the same in Finland. I don't drink either...