Crossword-Solution: MUR 3 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The joke was propagated further when some wag arbitrarily added MUR between the S and FF, creating the adjusted acronym, SmurFF, from Student Feedback Form.

The very remembrance of the bridegroom’s confident transport put mur-der in his heart--murder which he could only practice by his wishes, impotent to compass their desires.

Hard strove the frightened maiden, and screamed with look aghast; And at her scream from right and left the folk came running fast; The money-changer Crispus, with his thin silver hairs, And Hanno from the stately booth glittering with Punic wares, And the strong smith Muræna, grasping a half-forged brand, And Volero the flesher, his cleaver in his hand.

How was it that Darwin succeeded where others had failed? Because, in the first place, he had clear visions--"pensees de la jeunesse, executees par l'age mur"--which a University curriculum had not made impossible, which the "Beagle" voyage made vivid, which an unrivalled British doggedness made real--visions of the web of life, of the fountain of change within the organism, of the struggle for existence and its winnowing, and of the spreading genealogical tree.

The new Minister of Marine, the worthy Admiral Vivier des Murènes, was generally regarded as an excellent seaman.