Word: bowmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur Machen, 84, British author; in Beaconsfield, England. Deeply affected by the death of 5,000 British soldiers in the Battle of Mons (1914), he wrote a mystical short story, The Bowmen, which inspired a sincere belief in many Tommies that they had actually seen Saint George and his archers striking down the Germans on the battlefields...
...name as a nation even before the great days of Cyrus and Darius and Xerxes. Persia ("Pars") was merely one of Iran's provinces. In the same spirit, he chose to add Pahlavi to his name. It means "the Parthian." In classic times, the Parthians were famed mounted bowmen...
Fifteen years ago, bow & arrow hunting was almost extinct in the U. S. Today every State except Arizona permits hunting with bow & arrow; twelve States have special preserves for bowmen, three States (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin) have separate hunting seasons for archers...
Last week, while the open season for bowmen was on in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Georgia sponsored the first organized bow & arrow deer hunt held in the U. S. since the Indians took to gunpowder...
...that will give him time to lie down and bleed. Then he can't run away." > "You boys with your bows & arrows, you be careful. I don't want any of those broadheads [arrows] to hit my broad bottom." Despite these Woodycisms, last week's bowmen bagged nary a buck. One got pretty close, had his bow bent when the deer turned broadside...