Word: roam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mysterious older man becomes guide & philosopher to a group of young students, fires them with enthusiasm to roam the world under his leadership. They all meet at the station and wait for him; he never shows...
Thousands of "wild" horses still roam the Western plains. But except for a few specimens, most wild horses are starving runts, and subject to a highly contagious equine disease known as dourine. In hopes of controlling this malady, generally fatal two years after inception, Dr. W. Huffman, representing the U. S. Government, went last week to Boise, Idaho to arrange with State Veterinarian A. T. Dickman for a complete spring horse-cleaning of the Idaho plains. Owners and claimants of the horses-at-large cooperated readily, since U. S. canning factories provide a steady demand for horseflesh...
...greater potential value to the layman than the several hundred that make up Mr. Durant's best-seller on the story of philosophy. Certainly, the essay leaves the reader with a respect for "those qualities of mind that prompt other men to plunge into the deep waters and roam the trackless forests of the great intellectual adventure...
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, born with the haughties, found a peg to hang a life-grievance on when his young widowed mother married a man he detested, General Aupick. Stepfather Aupick believed in discipline. Stepson Charles disbelieved in Aupick. When Charles began to roam Paris with Bohemian friends, General Aupick feared for his own careful reputation. Soon they quarreled openly and Charles went off to live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval...
...Methodists under his lieutenant Francis Asbury were already de facto a separate church; Wesley's demise legalized the divorce. Wesley was a gentleman and had a gentleman's education. At Oxford before he was converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe, and attended at least one expensive & bibulous banquet. But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated. When John and his brother Charles got religion they took it hard, in a day when godliness was milder than measles...