Word: cornish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along at a rate of 20 miles or so a day, he achieved an extraordinary vision of a piebald Britain steadfastly conserving regional idiosyncrasies. He found Scottish Lowlanders employing litigation as a modern substitute for clan feuds, Welshmen thinking more about "minstrels, ash trees and scansion" than anything else, Cornish gypsies habitually "poovin' the grays" (pasturing their horses at night in somebody else's field). At the Hare and Hounds in Chip-shop, Devon, the customers like to sing hymns while they drink, and one night, they moved over to the church and helped out the choir...
...with the elements a major British sport, followed intensely by the public and pushed hard by the press. The Observer, quickest to capitalize on "Chichysteria," announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer and attracted 35 oddly assorted entries. The winner of that tough grind was a young Cornish schoolteacher, Geoffrey Williams, who slipped into Newport, R.I., a fortnight ago after 26 days, 20 hours, and 32 minutes en route; others are still at sea. The competing Sunday Times sent four record-seeking Britons floundering by dogsled across mushy Arctic Ocean ice from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the Spitsbergen...
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add to my wild rice, my Cornish game hens. The slacked or shorted, basketed, identical Food gathering flocks Are selves I overlook...
...little rich girl who is afflicted with a limp and is despised by her father because her mother died at her birth. She marries Bevil Menfrey, the handsome, tawny-haired scion of a high-spirited but impoverished family, and goes to live at Menfreya, a fortresslike mansion on the Cornish coast. Once installed, Harriet is deliriously happy-but hark: what about the beautiful, coolly poised governess who smugly glides around the joint and who soon becomes so obviously pregnant? And what about the legend of the tower dock, which stops when somebody is about...
Lawyers for the Sterling Drug Co., which produces Aralen, stoutly insisted that Mrs. Cornish was not entitled to damages either, even though she stuck to the prescribed dosage. Her doctor had been warned, said the Sterling lawyers, to examine her eyes periodically. Just as insistent, the doctor said he had been given no such advice...