Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house-servants. The grouse season brings Scotland an annual income of about $10,000,000. To shoot Scotch grouse, a visitor gets in a car with his host after breakfast and drives to some point on the edge of the moors. Then he gets out and walks to the butt-a crescent-shaped blind screened with furze. Last year one U. S. millionaire kept a tractor at the moor's edge in which he drove to the butt after leaving his car, but this luxury was criticized as bad sportsmanship. Gunners are served by three classes of retainers...
Nevertheless the Poet Laureate is a member of the Lord Chamberlain's office. He receives £72 a year, and, as a bonus, can take his choice between an additional £27 or a butt of canary wine. Moreover it was noticed last week, when Poet John Masefield was appointed Laureate, to succeed the late Dr. Robert Bridges, that the sale of his books spurted, both in London and New York, due partly to public clamor, partly to bursts of advertising feverishly concocted overnight by shrewd publishers...
Walking back to his hotel, he was surrounded and followed by a friendly curious crowd. He looked as if he were leading a parade. Casually he threw away the stub of the cigar he was smoking. The crowd wavered, broke, dove into the gutter for the treasured butt. Citizen Coolidge halted to watch men, women and children scramble and scratch, kick and slap. A woman arose from the scrimmage with the remains of the cigar. As she dropped it into her handbag, Citizen Coolidge grinned his amusement...
...equally frank about their money. Within 24 hours contributions totaling $92,500 had poured in, and the Beavermere press thundered that five members of Parliament elected as Conservatives had gone over to the United Empire Party. All five were comparative nobodies, the most prominent being Sir Alfred Butt, theatrical producer, and Sir Newton J. Moore, who twice upon a time was Premier of the province of Western Australia. Among the thousands who clipped and signed coupons enrolling them as "Empire Crusaders" was Sir Henry Segrave. world's fastest motorist. First ty coon to join the founders of the party...
...light did not exert pressure this ion and electron cloud would be spherical in form. But because light does press, sunlight forces the cloud into its egglike shape. The butt side is towards the sun. It is in that direction 30,000 miles thick and appears as the Zodiacal light. From the opposite side of the earth where the cloud's resistance to sunlight pressure is less it is squeezed a million miles or more from earth into a thin taper. That is where the Gegenschein glows. Through that taper the earth's atmosphere very, very slowly escapes...