Word: boar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clad in pink coat, white breeks and shining boots, Cinemacter Charles Chaplin rode out with the Duke of Westminster at Envermeu, France to hunt wild boar. Presently a boar broke cover, but there was no chase. The boar charged the comedian. When they were 100 ft. apart, someone else in the party brought the beast down with a rifle-bullet. That night Mr. Chaplin ate boar, declaring he liked it better on the platter than on the hoof. Next day, after several sessions with a masseur to ease limbs strained by his perilous riding, he cancelled a trip...
...Specially injecting on some stock," Mr. Kurihara said: "The hares and the pheasants in the wood should not be so curiously, however, if the shooter will find and kill the oldest wild boar which is jumped out of the wood, such game will be one of the greatest windfall. Auburn Automobile seems to be felt lonesomely and dishearten without a friend, if so; will seek as 'where is my brother?' Better to calls when one points away is small...
...Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against the boar, but in blind cover [where the hunters follow...
...this same category may be placed the boar's head (loaned by the Iraq Museum). Here again we have real artistry and feeling in the modelling of what was surely, as with the other animal figures, but architectural decoration...
...Liverpool, he went to sea at 14. As every Masefield devotee knows, he once worked as handyman in a New York bar. But for 25 years he has been a teetotaller, liking the looks but not the taste of wine. He lives with his wife and daughter on Boar's Hill, five miles from Oxford, where his melancholy mien and rusty, plunging gait are a perennial peripatetic phenomenon. He founded the amateur Boar's Hill Players, who acted now Shakespeare, now Masefield; he himself once played the ghost in Hamlet, hinnying like a snipe...