Word: 15th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constructed by the factory owner in violation of housing laws. Our monocled host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues of the 15th Century, paintings of madonnas, and some fourscore of Bavaria's wealthiest and most titled citizenry. Heading the guest list was one of the Kaiser's grandsons, a little ill at ease and easily the soberest guest in the place, and his pretty, dark-eyed sister, a refugee from...
...case with the composed dignity that its important place in Egyptian society had justified; a mummy of the same breed (one of thousands of such embalmed animals found in the Nile Valley), bound into a thin, dusty cylinder with only the ears and sunken face visible; a 15th Century specimen crouched and grinning above a terse warning: "Beware of cats, which lick in front and scratch behind...
...boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
...pounders threw everything they had. Saddler had Pep reeling drunkenly in the tenth round; another good punch would have been the end of Willie. But wily Willie, a shrewd hand and a good boxer, hung on, dodged, shook loose the cobwebs between rounds. Just before the bell ended the 15th, Pep was in trouble again; as he ducked a punch he sagged, momentarily helpless, against the ropes. Saddler swayed toward him-trying to find strength for just one more swing. He couldn't, and the bell ended one of the most rousing scraps in Garden history...
...centuries Donatella's San Ludovico statue was regarded as one of his poorer works. According to the gossipy Renaissance critic, Vasari, somebody once asked the 15th Century sculptor why he had made the saint look so stupid and clumsy, to which Donatello replied that it was all on purpose-he thought Ludovico must have been a sorry fellow to pass up the kingdom of Naples to become a monk...