Word: bead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last and greatest event will be the National Rifle Team Match. To win this each branch of U. S. armed forces strives doggedly. Sights are smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held...
Interest centers around the highly embossed loving cup that is the Mount Auburn Clambake Award. The metal of this trophy has a delicate green tinge that sets off the bead-fringed wormholes in a most favorable light. The age of the cup has never been correctly estimated, although the Latin inscription "Sie Konnen Mit Mir Trinken" indicates an obscure origin. The winners of it last year were the Cambridge Flying Squadron but it is apparently going to change hands again this spring...
...just after dawn, his legs dangling against his horse's flanks. He dismounted, stood back to back with James Shields. Both had muskets. They walked 20 paces, turned toward each other and took aim. Shields fired first, but his arm quivered. Lincoln remained upright, drawing a meticulous bead. Then his gun startled the silent morning...
...mind has not pealed since 1915, when Joseph Little Bristow ceased to be a U. S. Senator from Kansas after six tempestuous years. In the mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver, Clapp) he, a veritable Irate Citizen...
Another, and perhaps more common device, is to prepare two strings of beads with the father's full name. If twins or larger multiples are feared, extra strings are made up, with figures 1, 2, 3, 4, added. Then at the time of delivery, and before the umbilical cord is cut, one string is put around the mother's neck, the duplicate (or duplicates) around the baby's (or babies'). Such bead strings cannot slip over the baby's head...