Word: loree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squad's loquacious trainer, Roland ("Beaver") Bevan, is good at both. He is as well stocked with football lore as Doc Blanchard's father was, and he has enough pain-curing equipment to stock a hospital for hypochondriacs (which Cadets are not). Some of Beaver's newer gadgets: an infra-red lamp for bruises and sprains, an ultraviolet lamp for infections, a paraffin oil bath to provide extra heat for sprains, a short-wave diathermy machine for deep-penetration heat, frigidaire ice packs for inflammations...
Traveling minstrels sang Chief Tristan's praises so plausibly that his legend was adopted by the Welsh, who spiced it up with some fey lore and turned it over to the Irish. Irish harpists remodeled Tristan along the general lines of a fighting Irishman and changed his princess into a pretty colleen. The Vikings got wind of the story and decided that so beautiful a woman must, of course, have had golden hair...
...most popular adventure writers alive, ("I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," said Ernest Hemingway.) Readers of Commodore Hornblower will find it built on the same lines as its predecessors: its topmast in a cloud of fantastic thrills, its keel afloat in Royal Navy lore...
Then St. Denis turned mystic, dreamed vaguely of a Christian dance church in which body rhythms would replace orthodox hymns and sermons. Shawn was more interested in Indian lore and athletic male dancers. They disbanded their Denishawn partnership. "Ted and I are not divorced," she said, "only esthetically separated. I am full of temples and he is full of boy ballets...
...done what Russian armies in 1914 failed to do: clamp a bear hug on the province of East Prussia. Chernyakhovsky had struck from the east and north, Rokossovsky from the southeast. They ripped through historic forests, the hunting grounds of the Kaisers, through cities rich in Prussian military lore-Tilsit, Gumbinnen, Tannenberg, Allenstein...