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Word: bletchley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Times's friends realized with sympathy that its queer deer story was only a shade more embarrassing than a story which the Times printed in September. Receiving a flash from Buenos Aires that the bovine championship of the Argentine had been, won by an animal named Esther Bletchley Challenge, the Times sonorously reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Queer Deer | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Argentinians were convulsed. Buenos Aires humorists chortled. To their beef-wise minds, nothing could have been more comical than making a cow out of potent Esther Bletchley Challenge, national champion bull for which Bovril Co. paid 30,000 pesos to publicize its beef extract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Queer Deer | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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