Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?A delightful compound of reality and fantasy, in which Freud is actually turned to dramatic use without becoming a clinical bore...
...interior of the Darien peninsula, once more bent on the ancient quest. For days and weeks they remained buried in a wilderness of swamp and jungle grass, with nothing to connect them to civilization but a small wireless outfit and the monotonously regular stretcher parties that bore their muttering burdens back to the hospital at Colon. Yesterday, however, came a radiogram. The leader of the expedition reported that of the eleven original members, three were still left in the party; they intended to continue their march in the morning...
...Gare de Lyons, President Millerand and Premier Poincaré and a large attendance of ministers and diplomats awaited the train which bore the future King of Kings of Abyssinia and his suite of Field Marshals. After the arrival of the royal train, Ras got a little mixed over the etiquette of descending to greet the President which, as was pointed out, was not surprising considering that there is only one railway line in Abyssinia. Handshakes over, the Prince, "who is descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba," drove with the President through the gay streets of Paris. Parisiens...
More than a decade later Mr. Page's idea bore fruit...
...notice some times with a ridiculed phrase, some times with an exaggerated gesture. They did not quite like it that he should wear a toga while walking with the Romans. Even the pseudo-Romans failed to appreciate entirely his wearing of the toga. For one, the king he visited bore him no personal love. After some time of this, he wearied of his honorary exile. Its expense, for one thing, was a burden. Perhaps his fingers began to itch for the familiar feeling of the scorching pen. He voluntarily returned. At home, affairs were no longer the same. His former...