Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youthful Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., able, active scion of an able, active line, whilom Hearstling, who in 1923 branched out from running the national news service that bears his name to endeavoring to establish a chain of newspapers in the U. S. (beginning with two gum-chewers' sheetlets in California...
At Berkeley, the Golden Bears of the University of California basked in balmy sunshine, padded out upon their velvety gridiron, watched eleven red-and-blue-bellied men of Pennsylvania assume positions opposite. The Bears gave greeting, sprawled and stretched genially,
Ambassador Jusserand declared that the great university of which George Washington dreamed is now realized in the school which bears his name.
Then there was a raid on the Transvaal properties by foreign gold interests out to beat the Dutch control, led by Sir Leander S. Jameson, the administrator of Rhodesia, associate of Rhodes in this and other enterprises. As the biggest foreign mine-owner in the Transvaal, Rhodes was implicated. As...
"One hundred African lions, 40 Bengal tigers, 20 leopards, 100 pumas, 150 black bears, 1,000 buffaloes, 500 elk, 500 deer, 400 wild boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was...