Word: mown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church, he eats with his fingers. He drinks and drinks and drinks some more from great pewter tank ards; when angered, he absentmindedly dashes beer into the face of a bulldog. He grabs young wenches by the backs of their skirts and topples them onto piles of new-mown hay. He is up to his pointed chin in geese, cattle, ducks, pigs, horses, and a yelping nation of dogs. Mornings, he can be found asleep on the hearth where he passed out, the coals of a great fire still dying beside him, a dog or two nestled in his armpits...
...Lionel Barrymore, who undertook to educate her by reading aloud from Kipling's Jungle Books. Her first success, the title role in Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann, so moved critics during the play's three-year run that they "always seemed to write about new-mown hay when they saw it." Shaw went to Merely in London in 1904 and saw more than hay: "I'm forever yours devotedly. I take no interest in mere females, but I love all artists." To prove it, Shaw wrote Major Barbara...