Word: arachnid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would yearn for a rare arachnid, the Duke still hankered after peace. Succeeding to the title (and an estate valued for death duties at $18,600,000), he continued his propagandizing. As a gesture against the "militarism" of the Church of England, last winter he stopped paying $1,280 a year to support the ducal church on his estate in Bedfordshire and the rents of two neighboring vicarages. He also refused to donate the iron railings of his London properties for scrap iron to be made into tanks...