Word: boar
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Many old Bavarian families stubbornly resisted the Nazis and were singled out for persecution by Hitler; after the war, they were able to reclaim their confiscated holdings intact, and ever since have managed to keep the boar from the door with conspicuous success. One of their liveliest members is handsome Prince "Alfie" Auersperg, who was down to his last Schloss a few years ago; today he boasts a priceless collection of French paintings and a U.S. heiress for a wife. Because the Bavarian aristocrats have traditionally been less exclusive than Prussia's patricians, Munich today is one city...
Dial 219-61. The Grand Duchy today is a sort of constitutional Camelot. It boasts 130 castles (but no university), pristine forests where wild boar are still hunted, crystalline rivers that teem with crayfish, trout and, of course, water nymphs. The Luxembourgeois, who are walking advertisements for their cuisine (famed specialties: thrush pie and partridge canape), brag that it is "French in quality, German in quantity." In other respects as well, they claim to have Europe's highest living standards. There is neither unemployment nor slums; illiteracy was banished in 1847, and the duchy's booming steel industry...
...house committee sponsors cartoon shows and wild annual Bierstube; the music committee presents student and professional concerts; the Ford Foundation fund supports a wide variety of dinner guests and speakers; and from a variety of sources comes the boar's head ceremony and ribald play after the Christmas dinner...
...history of Troy and the works of Aristotle, even a scene showing Caesar receiving a German ambassador. Since the miniatures were never exposed to light as much as ordinary paintings, they furnish an especially vivid record of the medieval mind. One can almost hear the dogs yelping in the boar hunt of Louis Malet, Sire de Graville and Grand Admiral of France. The golden Flagellation, done around 1350, shows the medieval struggle with the problems of perspective, while the exquisite Crucifixion, painted nearly a century later by an artisan in the workshop of the master of the Rohan Hours...
...established a 100,000-acre game preserve in Choctaw County, to which he brought planeloads of folks from Washington and all points south. He could put them in 69 beds in his big house, and he loved to send them out hunting deer, wild turkey, quail, dove, wild boar and even buffalo...