Word: cowslips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help while away off-duty hours with the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, the Duke of Edinburgh got a present from home: his yacht, the Cowslip, which arrived in Malta by aircraft carrier...
...embarrassing ailment, because most people-including many doctors-have long associated gout with high living and heavy drinking.* Eighteenth Century British Surgeon John Hunter, who had gout himself, said bluntly that "most people who have had the gout severely have deserved it." Physiologist Erasmus Darwin, who drank little except cowslip wine, announced flatly in 1794: "I have seen no person afflicted with gout who has not drank freely of fermented liquor...
...paid the customary Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater, whose mustaches hung "pendulous in the shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat. During vacations he read the classics, climbed...
Descending from these heights of artistic imagination, the visitor may choose Silvan, Cowslip or Primrose Path, which, flanked by lovely bushes and protruding feet, wind down to the most respectable part of the cemetery. Here, beside one of the five artificial ponds, one may inspect the mausoleums of prominent Bostonians. The Cabots have an aperture in the roof of their tomb through which they may commune with...