Word: pram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...species of butterfly to invade the nests and eat the grubs. The ants tolerate this because they like a sticky substance which the butterfly exudes. "It is," commented owl-eyed Biologist Huxley, "as if a nursemaid were to allow a wolf to carry off the baby from her pram in return...
...those elaborate, generally sentimental illustrations for which the R. A. has been famed for generations. Nearest approach was a painting by Irish John Keating en titled Sacred and Profane Love. It showed a harassed mother wiping the nose of a snotty child while nearby her harassed husband holds the pram and gazes long ingly at a cinema poster of an inflamed kiss...
...Author, at a defenseless age, was patted in his pram by the late great Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, but this laying-on of hands produced no precocious poetics. The eighth of a large family (ten) of mixed German, Irish and English blood, Robert von Ranke Graves was born in London (1895), educated at Charterhouse and in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Like many of his English generation he was a battle-scarred veteran when he went up to Oxford (St. John's College) as an undergraduate. Already established as one of the outstanding poets of the War, he turned...
Though sometimes tempted, Nansen made no more Arctic voyages, handed over the Pram to Roald Amundsen. A public figure now, he was needed at home...
This able peer was never so happy as when pushing through Hyde Park in a pram his infant son, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes, now grown big enough to toddle. Defending Prince George against literary scoffers, Baron Gorell, a partner in the publishing house of John Murray, cried: "We should all heartily back the stand taken by His Royal Highness. I am told, moreover, that interest in what we used to call...