Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Snow Princess' is her favorite title," reported a doting correspondent of United Press, "because she adores winter sports. She has ash-blonde hair, a Cupid's bow mouth, the heavy eyelids of a dreamer, wide, dark, unplucked eyebrows, and a soft round face. Her eyes change from sea green to deep blue according to her mood. She is tall and slim and carries her clothes well. Her reserved manner has a regal touch about it and she is probably at her best in court dress. She is an ardent horsewoman, automobilist, swimmer, tennis player, dancer, well trained...
...Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere, sportsmen who hunt with bow & arrow have long had their own game preserves, where no guns are allowed. Last week the Oregon State legislature set aside the biggest bow & arrow sanctuary in the U.S.-the Canyon Creek Preserve, 200 sq. mi. near the centre of the State, where cougar, grizzlies, deer and small game abound...
Increasingly popular, big game hunting with bow & arrow has thrived in Oregon for years. Bowmen like the late "Art" Young used to go there for mountain lion, bear. Cassius Styles makes his famed bows, best in the U. S., of Oregon yew. Famed Oregon archers are: Homer Prouty, who has shot an arrow 466 yd. (a record) ; Dr. George Cathey, acting president of the National Broad Arrow Association, whose Oregon Chapter sponsored last week's bill. Dr. Cathey's greatest feat: killing two bears with broad arrows (hunting arrows with razor tips three inches long, one inch wide...
...height of the crime wave a new justice named Henry Fielding came to the Bow Street police court. More active than his predecessors, he began driving out at night in an innocent looking coach filled with armed deputies. Bands attempting to hold up the coach were ruthlessly shot down. At the end of a few months dozens of highwaymen had been shot off the roads and the crime wave was subsiding...
...after day a motley crew of drunks and strumpets, thieves and beggars and murderers passed through the Bow Street court. The new justice talked to them all, studied them, and remembered...