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...Swagman: hobo; billabong: waterhole; jumbuck: sheep; tuckerbag: food bag; squatter: sheep rancher; waltzing Matilda: hobos' affectionate name for their bag (bundle with blanket, tin cup, etc.) as it dangles from their shoulders and jounces with their pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Jobs Done and To Do | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Among the 1,000 Army pigeons in the Fort Monmouth lofts, Gimpy is as monogamous as the next old soldier. His mate is a three-year-old hen named Matilda. He ran her out of his nest four times before they settled down. Today, like any suburban pigeon, he sits on the eggs six hours a day while Matilda gets a rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Gimpy | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, on the fat Marshal's 48th birthday, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt claimed that the father of all the Görings was none other than Duke Albert of Brunswick, great-grandson of Henry the Lion, great-great-grandson of Henry II of England, whose daughter Matilda married into the German royal house of Saxony. To welcome "Iron Hermann" into the ranks of royalty, the city of Brunswick, where Henry the Lion is buried, sent him a replica of that ancestor's statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Royal Hermann | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...LADY WEPT ALONE-Carolyn Byrd Dawson-Crime Club ($2). Miss Matilda Brockett, the Grand Old Lady of the whole town, and Sheriff Tim Hammond untangle the jams into which Jay Halliday's shooting plunges his wife, exwife, Andy the ex-wife's suitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders in May | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Majesty is the first Scotswoman in over eight centuries to marry an English King, the first since Henry I married Matilda in noo A.D. She is descended from Sir John Lyon, the adventurous Thane of Glamis who in 1376 won as his bride Princess Jean, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, goes back to an earlier legendary period, but tourists still visit the Queen's ancestral home Glamis (pronounced Glahms) Castle to see where "Macbeth did murder Duncan," King of Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Boadicea | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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