Word: ba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SHEEP RUN?Thames Wil- liamson?Small, Maynard ($2.50). "Ba-a-a-a-a" bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks. A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last...
...ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent a day of their southerning in her evergreens, she took them personally, sadly. She wrote of lilacs, passionate to identify herself once more with her old New England...
Throughout the whole Ashanti visit, white-toothed, white-eyed mammies displayed their smiling picaninnies to the Prince on every possible occasion. The greetings which he received were as diverse as they were amusing: Ohene ba (the great King's son), "Cheerio!" "Nightio!" and finally Yaba dsogban (farewell and return again...
...Ba-ta-clan is a theatre in Paris where M. Millerand made a famous speech in 1919 when the Bloc National was formed...
...manner of the entrance was entirely Millerandian. As President of a newly-formed National Republican League, successor to the Bloc National, whose birthplace was the Ba-ta-clan* and whose epitaph was written in the May elections, M. Millerand, backed by 13 of his faithful henchmen, stood not on the order of his coming. In language, pointed and strong, he denounced the Herriot Government in a carefully prepared manifesto. He objected...