Word: matings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, rumors spread. The lonely bachelor monarch was again looking for a mate to share his throne. And busybodies-imperious dowagers, pseudo-diplomats, plain tittle-tattlers-began guessing, as they do each year that Boris takes a few days off, as to whom he might choose as his Queen. Names of all the probable and improbable princesses were pondered; the political effects of a dozen possible liasons were dis- cussed and expanded to absurd proportions. But to no avail...
...morning signal drill W. W. Lord '28 and B. H. Strong '28 held down the team A flank positions, while J. L. Coombs Occ, and John Prior '29 were the team B choices. In the afternoon Lord was again on team A with Prior as his running mate and Coombs and R. H. O'Connell '30 on the second combination. Two scrub team fackles, T. H. Alcock '28 and F. S. Davis '30 were taken up to the University squad at the conclusion of the morning work...
...splendens, a velvety black- and-bluish fish from Siam, with a round tail and carmine iridescences. A mirror held in front of three-inch Betta splendens soon excites him to the violent pugnacity for which he is world-famed. Sometimes, in a fit of rage, he destroys his own mate...
...home in a final chapter, entitled "Happiness," where the groceryman's wife, Mrs. Paddock, repents of having flirted with a local literary light and the grocer's daughter, Georgia Paddock, forgives Hero Jack Ellory for having belittled, by premature tactics, "the fully matured love of a man for his mate...
...week, when the Kingsway came to anchor off Staten Island, N. Y., Federal men took Mr. Battice ashore to be tried for murder, with Donkeyman Badke a material witness and statutory offender. Seamen Hans Malibar, Frederick Kline, Alex Christiansen, Sig Scvhwanborg and Erik Anderson, with Thomas Murray, acting first mate and onetime bosun, were held pending formal entry of the almost obsolete charge, "mutiny on the high seas...