Word: gored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairlie, for th' Jacobites, for Auld Scotia! Th' English canna dae tae Scrymgeour what they've done tae th' Cholmondeleys, th' Leveson Cowers, th' Majoribanks an' th' St. Johns, pronoonced Chumley, Leeson-Gore, Marshbanks an' Sinjin. Scrymgeour was just that afore th' Saxons landed. A rouse tae ye, TIME, but watch yer step...
...worst hit as far as loss of trees goes. Nine of the stately elms outside of Eliot House along Memorial Drive were prostrated, leaving a comparatively bare building. Over half of the poplars in the front circle were blown done. A scene of wreckage was the court between Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, where all but three of the old willows went down. Fifteen trees in the Yard were uprooted or snapped off near the roots...
...last week after the voting was over in Tennessee, Chairman Sheppard calmly announced: "Up to date, no candidate himself has been connected sufficiently with any charges to justify an election contest before the Senate." And after preliminaries that had promised real gore, only one Tennessean lay dead, though scores were injured in remote McMinn County...
...south, completely undefended Canton reeked with gore and horror as the Japanese, day after day, bombed the vast metropolis from which not so much as a rusty Chinese musket cracked against them last week. Nauseated newshawks tied handkerchiefs soaked in deodorants across their faces as they prowled about Canton streets strewn with decomposing Chinese corpses. The few available surgeons operated night and day in improvised hospitals. But Chinese morale did not crack. Between every raid, sweating Cantonese hustled through into the interior of China by rail and truck the precious munitions landed from British Hong Kong 78 miles down...
Bedded with gout at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister reshuffled his Cabinet as follows: Sir Kingsley Wood, formerly Health Minister, becomes Air Secretary; Lord Harlech, who had just entered the peerage because of his father's death, and who formerly as William Ormsby-Gore was Colonial. Secretary, is succeeded in that post by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay; Lord Stanley becomes Dominions Secretary, the office vacated by Mr. MacDonald; and Major Walter Elliot is made Health Minister, relinquishing the Secretaryship for Scotland to Lieut. Colonel David John Colville, formerly Financial Secretary to the Treasury...