Word: harborough
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...knife under his flowing cape. Assailants might have found him hard to locate, for he often could not locate himself: his absentmindedness was prodigious. He was sometimes obliged to buy a copy of his own weekly (G.K.'s) to find the address of his office. "Am in Market Harborough," he once wired his wife. "Where ought I to be?" Frequently he wore two ties at once...
...from Plymouth in the Golden Hind, entered Magellan Strait, went plundering up the west coast of the New World. Laden with Spanish treasure, he pushed north in search of an Arctic passage back to England. One day in the spring of 1579, he sailed into a "convenient and fit harborough" somewhere near the future site of San Francisco. There he received the homage of native Indians and, according to his chaplain's account, nailed to a "faire great poste"a brass plaque claiming "Nova Albion"in the name of Her Majesty. Then Francis Drake sailed on west round...
...Henley, who got so excited in a controversy over Tolstoy and Ibsen that he hit a brother-critic with his crutch. Corpulent, good-natured Chesterton was too absent-minded to be a good battler. On one of his lecture tours he sent his wife a telegram: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced by Barrie. Chesterton let himself be dressed in a cowboy suit, submitted to being rolled in a barrel, roped over a fake precipice, ordered to make faces...
...nearby hut. His left arm and shoulder were strapped and bound to prevent straining the fracture. Solicitous hands bundled him into a heavy overcoat, buttoned it tightly across his chest, turned up the fur collar about his ears. His chauffeur drove him carefully to Market Harborough station. There he picked up the public telephone instrument with his free hand and called his secretary at York House, London: "I'll be back to dinner, and you'll see that there's very little the matter with...
...Robert Harborough Sherard."Neighbor King." A Story...
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