Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day the waiter of Lord Birkenhead, one Xavier Coutiniera, bought a mammoth sow. Rich, he prepared to loaf...
Next day the warm Madeira sun shone upon sweltering tourists, upon monkey venders feeding sugar cane to their wares, upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought...
...bigger boys about differences and relations between men and women. Boys lay under plank bridges to spy up at passing women. Their little brothers were often born just the other side of thin partitions between bedrooms and perhaps only a night or so after they had seen a sow have a litter. Tom remembers how the men of his village shot a horse thief into a pulp. They both remember their "ole swimmin' holes" and the dirty tricks played there...
...mate to soften her perennial ire against the Prince of Wales. As far as I can remember (and that is some two years back) she has been scolding you about the Prince's baggy eyes, or is it trousers? You need no humorous column as long as you sow your LETTERS with such luscious tidbits of outraged virginity. If you stop my subscription because of the above-I'll -I'll-well, I'll have no more sunshine in my dreary, newspaper life! THEODORA MARCONE...
Five years ago Brunhilde, the able sow in whose likeness the bronze was cast, nuzzled into a salt deposit in her master's yard. The deposit, exploited, has proved to be one of the richest table salt mines in Germany...