Word: boar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has now been ruined. It is an honest and unobtrusively well-written story, full of unaccented human truth. The wildness and gloom of her husband's country oppressed her; the rigid social etiquette and slack business habits of his friends made her smile, the rituals of boar hunting on his 10,000-acre estate both thrilled and repelled her; his family's profound and narrow piety troubled her; the ignorance, poverty and knavery of his peasants disgusted her. Because she was a straight-and nai've-American, her book clearly mirrors all that. But because...
...Habsburgs, she was plagued by publishers, syndicates, authors' agents, cinema representatives with fantastic offers. But with wonderful loyalty she refused them all, lived off occasional sales of the Gobelins, pictures, china, and jewels the Emperor had given her (once, after a hunt, he had sent her a boar dressed up in necklaces, earrings, diamond bracelets). She made only one important revelation: in 1931 she made it clear that the mysterious double death of the Archduke Rudolf and his beautiful Baroness Maria Vetsera at the famed hunting lodge at Mayerling was definitely suicide...
...around Tellico Plains, in the Great Smokies, on hand to hear a straight-limbed, sixth-generation mountain girl sing a song her grandpappy taught her. The girl was 23-year-old Edith Haas Padgett, famed far & wide in the hills for once having bagged a charging 400-lb. wild boar with a single rifle shot...