Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bahamian natives had rioted down Nassau's swank Bay Street, smashing shop windows, helping themselves to expensive liquors, French perfumes, fine English fabrics. Said one excited spectator: "It was just like Pearl Harbor-it came so suddenly." Panicky merchants lowered their hurricane shutters and the British garrison police bore down on the mob. There was wild street fighting. Three of the rioters were killed, 40 arrested. The mob gradually retreated, with its stolen liquor, to native Grant's Town. But peace was not restored until the Duke returned and promised that something would be done about his problem...
...Brotherhood," to defy academism by returning for inspiration to the freshness of Botticelli, Mantegna and other predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces are downright...
...date of horror in Serbian minds, the Turks defeated the Serbs on the plain of Kosovo and slaughtered the cream of Serbian manhood. For the next four centuries Turkey bore down on Serbia as hard as Adolf Hitler has done, with such devices as impaling, mutilation and the roasting of living Serbs on spits...
...Kindest thing," pontificated the Club Bore from his murky corner, "is to say he's a misguided, political...
...dedicatory letter to his friend Major Randolph Churchill, "that these pages may not be altogether acceptable to your ardent and sanguine nature. They deal, mostly, with a race of ghosts ... in that odd, dead period before the Churchillian renaissance which people called at the time 'the Great Bore...