Word: rams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under such circumstances it is never pleasant to awake the next morning. Everything is so chaotic and unrecognizable, and one's head feels like a wornout battering ram. But you know all that, and you also know that the wretched one-time reveller needs humoring and kind treatment...
...picture. In fact, so far no one has had the temerity or ability to do so. Thick skins cannot be pierced with toothpicks and up to the present only the very tiniest and bluntest splinters have been used. Now that Ohio Republicans have substituted a battering ram we can hope that Mr. Hoover will gracefully accept the increasingly obvious fact that many Republicans would not choose him as their leader...
...Lack of information, rumors in the bazaars, ineptitude, bribery; ram, lamb, sheep, mutton or goat twice a day; Somerset Maugham's rains, almost freezing temperature; fleas, lice, dirt; panhandling natives, lepers; a disquieting quietude; camels with halitosis, refractory mules, screaming hyenas, geese which hiss and nip at one's legs, then chortle...
Under the Sign of the Ram, the Bull, the Twins, the Crab and the Lion John Farmer toils and sweats through spring and summer from dawn to dusk. But under Virgo, when the sun slants toward its autumnal solstice, he lays down his tools and turns his thoughts to rest and fun. Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright...
...porcelain. Busy with a group of 200 antique Chinese paintings. Orientalist Laurence Binyon prophesied that a 13th Century landscape that he was cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases. T'ang burial figures, carved jades, Hawthorn jars, gold, bronze and ivory figures, in all about 3,000 pieces bought for Britain this month at a cost of ?100,000 from...