Word: boar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alabama's huge (6 ft. 8 in., 260 Ibs.), boar-browed Governor James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom was feeling fine when he set out on a drive to Washington last week. He hoped to testify before a congressional committee on tidelands oil. He planned to go to New York to see some fashion models who had voted him No. I Leap Year Bachelor, and thus get his picture in the papers. As a self-avowed presidential candidate, he also hoped to rebroadcast a campaign promise-that he would take his "ole cornshuck mop and his ole suds bucket...
Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland also had his day of triumph. At the Reading (Pa.) Fair, his 725-lb. boar was champion in the open Hampshire class...
...tells is as damply sentimental as any screened by Moses Fable. But his eye is as sharp as a vermicologist's for the peculiar inhabitants of the peculiar Hollywood world-a world that Dirty Eddie holds in his mouth like a candied apple in a delicatessen' boar's head...
...then the crowds (70,000 daily*) that come to the zoo have had to content themselves with substitutes. They watch six monkeys and two house cats play in the huge polar bear caves, stare at the modest antics of a Jersey cow, now the sole occupant of the wild boar...
...Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent so far as to lead the family in carols around the piano...