Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornwall's huntsmen stiffened in their saddles. "I never heard a hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said...
...cried: "The law was invoked to compel me to submit to treatment which was an offense to my conscience as a citizen and a Christian priest." Costello's boxes gleaned about ?51,000, but the collection so outraged the Orangemen that they poured out to the polls as never before. Dublin's Protestant Irish Times crowed that Costello's collection was worth 60,000 votes for the Unionists in the resentful North...
...from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge the Master of Foxhounds with throwing a live fox to his dogs. "I have never," said the huntsman, "thrown a live cub to hounds. It is well known that this is bad for the hounds...
...Aires, then wound up their day with a fling at roulette. Though nowadays only waiters and casino attendants dressed after dark, much of the-old Argentine formality persisted. Most sedate of all were the descamisados, who packed the half-dozen big government-owned hotels. They seldom danced, the women never wore slacks...
...Iowa City, Pollsters George Gallup and Archibald Crossley dutifully showed up for a three-day forum on poll-taking (Elmo Roper was invited too, but took sick and couldn't make it). Gallup insisted that he enjoyed living dangerously but "I'll never be happy until we've got this thing licked." Crossley concurred: "We are not here to praise the polls, but certainly not to bury them...