Word: gores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valuable addition to the collection came in 1879 when the librarian discovered a package behind a board in old Gore Hall which contained the hand-drawn plans of British Revolutionary fortifications. Included is "A sketch of the Battle of Germantown 4th October 1777 where the rebels were repulsed." A short time later the red coated cartographer hid his maps and retreated...
...cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
Philco Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Death of Billy the Kid by Gore Vidal, starring Joseph Anthony...
...Busch bought the Cassily Adams painting for $35,000, and turned it over to a lithographer to reproduce. The lithographer redrew most of it, adding dozens of new figures and buckets of gore (i.e., three dying soldiers being scalped) to what was once a fairly restrained, stilted scene. †A long-used diminutive that Busch barely tolerates. Most people who refer to him as "Gussie" call him "Gus" to his face. *Bottled beer, says Gussie Busch, should not be poured by dribbling it down the side of a tilted glass. The bottle should be tipped almost straight...
...ineptness, and with special reference to its ten-year, $39 billion highway construction program. Last week ineptness led to the defeat of the Administration road bill in the Senate, which scrapped it in favor of a fiveyear, $18 billion highway program offered by Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore...