Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica and Winchester. It mattered little that the title of Viscount of Winchester was as exotic in Simla as the Maharaja of Patiala would be in Wapping Old Stairs. In Lord Wavell was embodied the military might and the political glory of one of the only three great powers to survive...
...back and read his congratulatory messages (some from employers). Both West Coast business and labor heaved a sigh of relief. Employers who would never learn to love Harry Bridges had learned how to live with him and like it. The case against him had become a nuisance and a bore...
G.I.s and Tommies bore out the Field Marshal's story. German girls in brief shorts and halters systematically sunned themselves in full view of U.S. engineers building a bridge over the Weser River. Sometimes the girls shed the halters...
...said: "It's like a Turkish bath in there. Goodness knows how Father manages to stick it!''; and Alexandra, Tsarina of all the Russias, who brought along a whole corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled-chance can be such a bore...
...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...