Word: baboons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cobb and Ruth, contemporaries for more than a decade, took intense pride in their achievements. Their pride, fanned by sportswriters, kindled into a crackling feud. Cobb used to call Ruth "that big baboon," and Ruth would bristle at Cobb's mere name. Recently sportswriters tried to rekindle the dying embers. They told Ruth what a good golfer Cobb is (Cobb once shot 71). They told Cobb what a good golfer Ruth is (Ruth once shot...
Over a fireplace in Sir Robert's country house, Denham Place, Bucks, hangs the portrait of an ancestor, Henry Vansittart, who was Governor of Bengal. That was the Vansittart who once sent his brother a live baboon, which the brother promptly presented to an organization both men belonged to, the Hell Fire Club, where the baboon was given the Eucharist at every meeting. Blasphemy had burned out of the family by the time Robert Gilbert Vansittart came along, as the conquering spirit had burned out of most Englishmen...
...work again. With shouts of Arriba Maury Maverick! they rallied San Antonio's Mexicans for the runoff next week. And Maverick, fighting for his political life, appealed to his middle-class white supporters with attacks on Quin's Negro supporters, tore into Bellinger as "that black baboon" who would be more powerful than San Antonio's whites if Quin...
...basis of evidence which was at that time believed to be accurate and complete, the writer gave a brief account of Lucas, the so-called "baboon boy" of South Africa [TIME, April...
...Although the hearsay evidence about the boy being found by the police is still maintained, nevertheless the previous institutionalization of Lucas at the Grahamstown Mental Hospital, the distance of Grahamstown from Burghersdorp (where he was allegedly found among baboons), and the fact that there is no mention of the baboon incident in the Mental Hospital records, all would seem to discount the existence of a "feral" period in Lucas' life...