Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs have enabled the killing or capture alive of jaguars, pumas, ocelots, tapirs, giant armadillas, deer, anacondas, and a very rare Brazilian red wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). Except for Buck and Bill whom alligators killed, the dogs escaped serious mauling by game. Old Jake, 6, their leader, had his right ear clawed by a jaguar. It had to be amputated. Old Jake was responsible for 17 jaguars, six pumas, twelve ocelots. Prior to this Matto Grosso hunt, when he lived in Arizona, he had to his credit 60 pumas. 26 black bears, two grizzlies, bobcats galore. If Old Jake comes...
...Publisher Bonfils when a little trout struck at once, ran toward the deep end of the pool. Startled was he when his rod bent double as a bigger, a monster fish struck the other fly, knocking the first trout free. Alarmed was he when suddenly a big, mossy-horned buck deer came out of the brush, walked into the river and started shoving Pub lisher Bonfils into deep water. Delighted was he when his host shooed the deer away and he climbed out of the stream 45 min. later with a 7¼ Ib. trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story...
...Connelly based his Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures), he failed to add to it with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods...
...that California's late Senator James Duval Phelan, another rich, lusty Irishman, but a wiser one, had provided against just such suits by a clever clause in his will- Suddenly there was a wild wave of excitement. Spectators rose in their chairs and booed angrily when old Judge Buck halted the case in midtrial, ordered the jury to return a prompt verdict against Mrs. Gavin...
Unmoved by the outburst, Judge Buck said, "Aileen, you had better sit down...