Word: boons
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...Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon she was seized by a towering bobby and lugged, kicking and squirming, outside the palace gate...
...anglers luckless with the fly this essay has proved a great boon. What if it did ruin the author's reputation as a fisherman? Although "Fishing with a Fly" and "Revisiting a River" contain the same charm, the same dry humor and lucid beautiful prose, they can not surpass this defense of the amateur fisherman. Why, I can not say, for such a paragraph as this lacks nothing...
Substitute "work" for "duties" and the meaning gradually unfolds. Man does not want to labor; but, since he must, it is a kind of boon to guarantee him the certainty of work...
...short, through their practical courses in the arts of the theatre, many of our colleges are taking their place today, have indeed taken it, in the creative artistic life of America. This, I think, is a boon to America, and a deuced advance in college education. For that reason I am, as a graduate of Harvard, all the more grieved that my own university, where Professor Baker started the whole movement, has been the one ranking institution to repudiate it, and is now permitting Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, California, and so on, to influence the practical theatre arts of today...
Almost to the finish Lady Boon led, then swerved suddenly, almost throwing Edward from his saddle. Tenacious, he kept his seat, but lost the race to one Captain Stevenson...