Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bones" tomb-and never more were heard of in this life. Others say that fabulous treasures and curiosities are stored within the various cryptic walls, brought there by brethren from high office* or daring adventures- the original Declaration of Independence, the very skull of Napoleon, a wolf shot by Buffalo Bill, a key to the main gate of the Vatican. Wildest of all are the rumors about what is done at the societies' meetings, for these begin twice weekly at seven and often last until four or five in the morning. Some say that naked male Negroes figure...
...Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...
...same evening a new award, the Silver Buffalo, was created? "for distinguished service to boyhood." The first recipient was Sir Robert Baden-Powell. It was also conferred on 20 others, some of them dead, who have given their services unstintedly to the Scout movement. Hereafter this medal will be awarded to not more than five men annually...
...last week got the Silver Buffalo...
Officers. To succeed S. E. Thomason (Chicago Tribune) as their president, the publishers elected John Stewart Bryan (Richmond News-Leader). Edward H. Butler (Buffalo Evening News), George M. Rogers (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and Howard Davis (New York Herald Tribune) were other new officers?vice president, secretary and treasurer, respectively...