Word: bored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blue uniform, twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
However great a loss the reported destruction of the famous Turner drawings may be for the world of art in general and for the Tate Gallery in particular, this destruction must come in a certain sense as a bore for all who may possess specimens of the master's work in their collections. The destruction of the work of an artist must multiply the value of those works which remain. Philatelists have been known to destroy one of two specimens of a given stamp in order to double the value of the remaining one. Possessors of Turner's drawings...
...cellar one day, when I noticed that one of my coal bins had been completely filled with thousands of copies of some pamphlet. This was a clear hint, which I immediately seized. I cancelled all my coal orders for that month and used the pamphlets. They were all new, bore no signs that anyone had ever opened them. In this way I saved the price of 44 tons of coal, which will keep me in penwipers for the rest of my life. You may be interested to know that I was the one who originated the term 'white coal', which...
...empty champagne glass in the Vagabond's hand bore evidence of the new year's proper reception and with the Vagabond all was well. He remembered, a trifle vaguely, perhaps, that he would not roam the halls of learning until the mid year examinations; besides, we have remarked, perhaps we should say confessed, the glass was empty. Then, too, it has been recorded that the Vagabond's companion was fair, was, it may be said, shall, in fact, be said, nothing short of well favored...
...well that these women bore some resemblance to pioneers. Each one was a four-foot statue intended as a model for a 35-foot bronze statue to be called The Pioneer Woman and to be erected, at the expense of E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., near Ponca City, Okla. They had been touring U. S. cities so that those who saw them might say which one they liked the best. Last week George Marland, son to E. W. Marland announced that one of the twelve women had been selected for this honor...