Word: maris
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, a great plenitude. The grief of Achilles over the body of Patroclus; the death of Socrates; "Hark! Hark! the Lark" and "Full Fathom Five"; "Lycidas"; "To Althea from Prison"; Gulliver and the Lilliputians; Tristram and the Ass; the Pibroch of Donuil Dhu; "The Rime of the Ancient Mari-er" and "Kubla Khan"; Lamb's "Gentle Giantess"; Edward John Trelawny on how they burned Shelley's body; a great deal of Keats; more Tennyson; still more Thackeray and Browning and more Dickens than anyone...
...page appeared a joke that was characteristic of the issue?a joke printed in French, and making a play of the words "habits" (clothes) and "explorer" (to go through). "Translation on page 31," said the editors. "Ha! this matter must be salacious," cried the vulgar reader: ". . . habits de mon mari. J'ai I'habitude de les explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French he would not deign to turn to page 31; no, and what's more he would put the magazine where his wife could not get at it. Had he bothered to read the translation, he would...
Happily, he was a resourceful superman. Having failed as Lord of the Sea, he went to the Holy Land just in time to be acclaimed as the Messiah of the Second Coming. He marI ried Rebekah and for 60 years ruled...
...established by Treaty of Union signed in 1922 by the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (Russia proper, Turkestan, Kirghiz, Tartar, Bashkir, Mountain Republic, Daghestan, Crimea, Votiak, Mari, Chuvash, German Volga areas, the Far Eastern region), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the White Russian S S R. and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal S. R. The Treaty was ratified last January...