Word: goats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feud had arisen because of Mary, their hired girl, who, failing Fergus, had gone a-loving elsewhere. Peter, who keeps a goat's eye on her himself, persuades Fergus that she has been the cause of their father's death, that she must be killed. On the day of the murder Peter feigns sick. Fergus loves Mary, but, under his brother's patriarchal command, he takes her out and drowns her. Convicted of murder, he is sentenced to penal servitude for life...
Meanwhile St. Gandhi squatted quietly in stone-walled Yerovda Jail, spinning 500 yards of yarn a day, sipping goat's milk, walking round & round the prison compound with a retired British private as companion...
...William Frederick Slocum of Colorado College, President Rush Rhees of the University of Rochester. Sir Robert Alexander Falconer of the University of Toronto. Princeton's Dr. John Grier Hibben has been president since November 1930. His turn ended last week. Elected to take the next turn was twinkling, goat-bearded President William Allan Neilson of Smith College. Only one meeting a year will keep Dr. Neilson from his accustomed activities, which have included writing scholarly books on Shakespeare and Chaucer; chaffing (he is witty, Scottish) with his German wife; endeavoring drily to confuse humorless alumnae and joining gaily...
...orders to marry last week, and so did Prince Moazzam Jah. Proceeding to Nice, France, these drab brothers were caparisoned with Oriental pomp, garlanded with flowers, buckled with jeweled swords and conducted by a suitably gorgeous retinue to the villa of His Holiness the politically deposed Caliph of Islam, goat-bearded Abdul Medjid Effendi, 63, still spiritually potent...
...Washing another jumper for the big brawl stop cut out the refreshments they get my goat stop will one supporter be enough." Signed Ghandi...