Word: loree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved to New Mexico, established a cult devoted to nature, Indian lore and Indian dancing. In tribal dress, he lectured daily, worked on unfinished books, built an adobe castle as a museum shrine. When he died, he was planning a 10,000-mile lecture tour...
...book's charm lies in Author White's nostalgic evocation of 18th Century life, his knowledge of animal and country lore (in private life he is an ardent naturalist), and his ability to make genuinely dramatic such absurdities as the thrilling rescue of Maria by the Lilliputian rat-cavalry. The best things in Mistress Masham's Repose are the mischievous parodies of human clichés-of-thought-as when Captain, a dog, muses on the virtues of his owner, the cook...
...touch of seasickness from historical romances, marine or otherwise. This fifth and (according to the publishers) last of the series is the poorest of the lot. It involves too much dry-land maneuvering and lush love-making on Hornblower's part, too little Royal Navy salt and lore...
Richard West '48, well-versed in Cambridge lore, conducts the tours. Dean Hanford commended the project at the meeting for new Freshmen and returning students in sanders Theatre Friday evening...
...Theodore Christian Schneirla of the New York Museum of Natural History has one absorbing interest in life. An animal psychologist of renown, he would rather study the army ant than any insect he knows. Last week he was back in Manhattan from the Canal Zone with new lore about the most predatory of ants and its life in a society of fierce complexity...