Word: pondful
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...bull appeared, took a look around and lit out after the aficionados. A few, emboldened by rum, turned to meet him. As soon as the bull had dealt with them, he went after another yelling group. Once he got too close, and a hard-pressed torero leaped into a pond convenient for just such an emergency...
...sometimes Grandmama came to visit. She was regal and beautiful. She told little Beatrix wonderful stories of her youth-about the adorer who had first written her a beautiful poem, beginning "Sweet harp of Lune Villa!" and then drowned himself in the lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny...
...Never Grew Up." In the summer, the Potters went to Scotland or the Lake District, where Mr. Potter hunted and indulged his hobby-collecting autographed letters of the Lake Poets. It was there that Beatrix discovered "the child's half-real, half-fantastic world of pond and ditch, stone walls and foxgloves, woods and sandy warrens"-side by side with "the crowded informal cottage gardens," the cupboards and dressers, the huge ranges with their pans of dough rising under "an old clean blanket." All these things Beatrix carried back in her mind to London, and, in her own words...
...storm broke in Hobbies, a magazine devoted to the delights of private boondoggling. A recent issue included a report on a new sport-mouseboat racing -the invention of a ten-year-old anonymous moppet. Necessary paraphernalia: 18-inch racing boats, mice, a bathtub or pond. In racing, the mice propel the boats by walking a treadmill attached to a small paddle wheel. Said Hobbies: "No cruelty is imposed on the creature since experience shows that mice derive much enjoyment from their wheel-turning activity...
Athletic Harvard men did calisthentics--Yogi type-- on the banks of the Charles. Tennis courts were crowded with the exhuberantly healthy. A few traipsed off to the rock-strewn shores of Walden Pond or the flesh-strewn beaches of Revere...