Word: barking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts and the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have upheld his demand for compensation. The Cuban Government has refused...
...seventh he had financed for the American Museum of Natural History. The museum's Barnum Brown accompanied him, and the Carnegie Institution's Earl H. Morris. They found evidence that the extinct Basket Makers, Aborigines who preceded the Cliff Dwellers, used cotton for their textiles, inner bark of the squawberry bush for their baskets. A grooved boomerang with a handle suggested a remote connection between the Basket Makers and the boomerang throwers of Australia. On this trip he secured two boxes of dinosaur bones...
...might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself in bed when her dog, startled by a flash of lightning, begins to bark...
After the Spanish War, Mr. Barlow obtained large tracts of land in what later became the heart of Havana. Their title rested upon a 400-year-old Spanish royal grant which bounded them "as far as a dog's bark can be heard." Cuban courts decided he had been despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose...
...Reynoldsville, Pa., one Frank Chiffen, silk-mill fireman, shut up his wife in his house and nailed boards over all but one of the windows and doors. At the remaining door he chained three dogs. Whenever he heard the dogs bark he ran home from the mill to investigate. Failing to catch anyone with his wife, he sharpened his axe, ran to the house, decapitated his wife, shot himself through the head...