Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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An old French pack in the collection bears evidence of having been used for one of the original purposes of cards, that of fortune-teelling. The cards in this pack are covered with weird words and marks scrawled on their faintly colored greasy surface. Another ancient deck from France shows...
The book itself is a copy of Milton's Poems edited by Thomas Warton and printed in 1791. Given to Coleridge in 1823, it bears upon almost every page notes in the poet's rather cramped, jagged handwriting, and on the fly leaf alone the dedicatory inscription the words "I...
Author James Stevens, onetime hobo teamster, of Tacoma, Wash., is famed as the chronicler of superhuman Paul Bunyan, the mythical hero of North American lumber camps. Author Stevens is an authority on other mythical creatures of North America including lava bears, sand gougers, lightning birds, waumpus cats, treehoppers and minktums...
"Then, while the happy bears frolicked among the blossoming foamcups, the Guzzlenots descended upon them. The Guzzlenots were dour fowls with shark teeth and clanked a mean blue beak. Their feet were wide and webbed, their necks rubbery and curving. They could not abide the Staggerbears with their crescent smile...
Included in the program is a Chinese fairy tale in which a willow tree goes out of its way to help a princess in distress. The tree bears one banana to appease the wrath of an angry mandarin, and die immediately after accomplishing its errand of mercy.