Word: hare
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...solve this dilemma the CRIMSON hare with offers the first of a group of selected gifts for your inspection. By wandering through the streets of Cambridge and Boston we have attempted to pick items which are either unique in themselves, or of such high value that they are worthy of your attention...
...nourishment, his picture boasts a table laden with fish, fruit, ham, chicken, lobster and a skinned hare. The rest of the painting seems to show that it takes all kinds to make a world: there are a broad-beamed model, a shepherd boy with a goat, a Negro with a wheelbarrow, a bishop, a gargoyle, a rat, a frog, a monkey, a barking dog and a girl with a bouquet, whom Lorjou describes as "the pretty woman one sees every day some place...
Down the Rathole. In practice, an excess profits tax spurs wasteful spending. In World War II, when 85? of every "excess" profit dollar "went to the Treasury anyway," no one paid much attention to padded expense accounts, high costs and wild spending on all kinds of hare-brained projects. "In effect," recalled U.S. Plywood's President Lawrence Ottinger, "the Government promised to throw $6 down any rathole where you threw...
...fought his first major action as commander of a carrier group in the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts (Tarawa-Makin). He had a prescient hunch that the Jap carriers, fed up with heavy daytime losses, would launch an attack at night. With Lieut. Commander Edward H. ("Butch") O'Hare, famed Congressional Medal winner, Radford worked out a radar-equipped night fighter system. When -sure enough-Jap torpedo planes were reported approaching after dusk, O'Hare took off with his bat team. Two of the approaching Japs were splashed (shot down) and the others, disconcerted, turned back...
...20th Century. G. K. Chesterton flatly named Trent's Last Case (1913) "the finest detective story of modern times." Agatha Christie calls it "one of the three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty times easier than writing a detective story, like Trent's Last Case...