Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuckerman's Ravine and the Suicide Six bore you, if you Nosedive no longer holds that old charm, then salt away you Lake Placid folders and take the next train west...
First to handshake his way past the Trumans in the white & gold East Room was the dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...
...favorite city. "Man did much for New York," he says, "God did much for Rio." He chattered with his two sons, Oswaldo Jr., 26, and Euclides, 27, and his daughter Delminda, 24. He dashed next door to see his 74-year-old mother, Doña Luiza, who bore 21 children and continues to advise the close-knit family brood on all matters public and private. On Saturday, Racing Enthusiast Aranha drove over to the Jockey Club, watched his three-year-old Itororó win a $2,000 race, and got another ovation...
Starting in 1855, when the Hasty Pudding Club presented its first public performance, dramatics began to bore from within the College. Although the Pudding had its troubles with University Hall, the administration stepped aside without intense prodding, graciously acknowledging the coming of new times. And by 1881, the College itself was taking a fling with the dramatic arts...
...true Irishman the way a pack of lean hounds will be leppin' in full cry with pink-coated riders on fine, gallant horses just on the tails of them. Farmer Larry Costello is a true Irishman, but when the Galway Blazers, the most famous hunt in all Ireland, bore down on his property, what did Larry do? He beat on buckets to drive the fox into the gorse and thwart the chase entirely...