Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Allenby brought his military reputation through the War with less damage than most of his peers. Born of an untitled Yorkshire family, he entered the Army after flunking Indian Civil Service examinations. Having proved himself a cool, competent bush fighter in Bechuanaland, Zululand and the Boer War, he was a major general in command of all British cavalry by 1914. Flanders was no place for horsemen. His career was nearly wrecked by the slaughter of his cavalry at the battle of Arras in 1917. Two months later he was sent to see what he could do about the situation...
...chief radio electrician. . . . The annual Fono [Islands' native council] recommended that the selling and serving of beer to young men under 18, and all women, be prohibited. . . . Subsequently this was enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely done away with. . . . Samoans do not carry alcohol as well as ordinary white persons. . . . The Samoans, particularly the young men, were addicted to rock throwing. . . . This habit culminated in one death. . . . The assailant was sentenced to three years in jail. . . . There has been very little trouble...
...Gertrude Stein did it by pretending it was Alice B. Toklas speaking. Norman Douglas did it by thumbing through a lifetime's collection of calling cards, telling what he could remember about each visitor. Last week Gladys Bronwyn Stern beat an even more ingenious path about the bush. Readers learned little from Monogram about the facts of Author Stern's life but heard plenty about her fancies and opinions. For her admirers, the plenty was a surfeit...
...belong to any of these nationalistic societies. My only affiliations are with my local Grange for purely social reasons. Nor am I of these people who believe Communists lurk behind every bush waiting to destroy the government...
...months before her death. Strangest shot was one taken by Dandré in Pavlova's garden in Hampstead which showed her in a simple gingham dress, stretched out on the flagstones beside a pool and talking to a pet swan. Dandre hid behind a bush to take the picture with a small sound camera, recorded his wife's curious, high-pitched voice as she called: "Come on, Jack, come Jacko, oh darling." Members of the audience who knew Pavlova regretted the intimate scene. The dancer allowed no intrusion into her private life, kept her marriage secret...