Word: lyme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British mystics were deep in thought last week, wondering whether they had found a symbolism between an occurrence at Dorsetshire and the ancient story of the lion and the unicorn. The occurrence: In a fair field of turnips near Lyme Regis* grazed Nelly, a young mother cow. Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf. There in the field was a tawny, muscular black-maned lion...
...gored him deeply. At the same time showers of buckshot from the guns of shouting farmers added to Wallace's misery, roused his temper. Quickly he raked Nelly's ribs, broke her neck, left her to die, loped across the pasture into a cottage garden. There the Lyme Regis postman, armed with a revolver, stalked the lion through the hollyhocks, shot him dead...
...King's Lyme, commemorating Peter Baudrat's gift of lands in Lyme Borough to King Edward II in the 14th century. Last week Bognor, seaside town in Sussex, where King George V was recently a convalescent, became with George V's permission, Bognor Regis...
Married. Woodbridge Bingham, son of U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, descendent of three colonial Governors; and Ursula Wolcott Griswold, of Manhattan; in Old Lyme, Conn...
From Bagdad, the travelers will go to Palestine, thence to Europe, where the exact itinerary has not as yet been planned. Dr. Smith has declared that all graduates who might be interested in accompanying him can reach him at Old Lyme, Connecticut...