Word: bearse
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Confucianism places filial piety high among the cardinal virtues. Failure to produce a male descendant is the gravest of filial omissions. For 2,300 years men have avoided impiety by taking a concubine when a wife remains-childless or bears only daughters. If a man puts off the choosing of...
Born in 1790, Mathew went to Ireland's famed Maynooth seminary, got expelled for his convivial ways. He joined the poverty-praising Franciscans, later got a parish in poverty-ridden Cork. Unlike most priests of his time, Father Mathew gladly worked with Protestants ("We should bear with each other...
> Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the...
Many was the tear shed by 18 pairs of eyes into as many if not more bears Thursday evening, before the 2000 curfew.
His wealth and charm made his Parisian table a favorite of two continents. Bullitt thought nothing of throwing a party for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (490 bottles of choice champagne), or embellishing his vast Moscow house with cockerels and baby bears borrowed from the zoo. As the first...