Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the good Bishop more familiar with modern fox-hunting he would know that preserving foxes, rather than killing them, is the major concern of most organized hunts. In America, where earth stopping is not practised, when a fox is hard pressed he goes to ground,- (''hole" to you. Bishop, Matthew 8:20, and Luke 9:58), -and lives to run another day. The real object of a foxhunter is not to kill a fox, but to observe the wonderful skill and perseverance of a well-trained pack of hounds after a quarry conceded to be the most...
Some years ago His Majesty King Zog posted with the more reputable European marriage brokers an offer of $5,000 for a bride "suitable to become Queen of Albania," and willing. Tirana, the mountainous little kingdom's capital, is regarded among diplomats as the "worst hole" in Europe. In a famed instance, lonely King Zog through his telescope espied from the Royal Palace four traveling salesmen playing cards in their Tirana hotel bedroom, telephoned over to ask if he could come and join the game. The defects of Tirana, plus His Majesty's extreme addiction to chain-smoked...
...planned at first," he said, "to present one orchid to Mr. Curley as he descended from political lime- light into obscurity, and another one if he would promise to remain in obscurity. But the pseudo-florists of Jackson Hole, N.H., ruined everything...
...commander asserted that no other gift could express Harvard affection for the Governor as well as a Jackson hole orchid. He added that everything from a "gardenia to a hamburger" had been considered...
Water was run into the hole through a wide hose, and formed a solution with loose soil at the bottom. The resultant mixture was forced to the top through a very narrow pipe, and was collected in a trough...