Word: marees
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...Lexington, Kentucky's Keeneland Sale, the Aga Khan's nine-year-old bay mare, Masaka, was bought by Horsetrader A. B. Hancock Jr. for $105,000, highest price ever paid for a thoroughbred brood mare at a U.S. auction...
Escape from Fort Bravo (M-G-M), riding hard on the hoofbeats of Shane and High Noon, should prove to the movie public that the old mare is what she used to be-and maybe more. Director John Sturges' Bravo is in some ways the best western since 1943's memorable Ox-Bow Incident...
After that, there are a few instructions about gender (if jeval is horse, omjeval is stallion and jijeval is mare), ordinal numbers (balid is first, balsid is tenth), and adjectives (add ik to noun stems). Finally there are about a hundred words of vocabulary. Samples...
...World War I, Eddie was one of London's luminaries. He was theatergoer No. 1, a patron of such young poets as Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Bridges, and Walter de la Mare. He took it upon himself to correct George Bernard Shaw's pronunciation and got called "a bumptious novice" for his pains, tidied up Ezra Pound's Greek, played charades with Playwright James M. Barrie. Between 1912 and 1925 he edited and published six volumes of poetry to help his young poet friends get started...
...Twickenham, England, Poet Walter de la Mare celebrated his 80th birthday with a promise: a new book of verse to be ready soon...