Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago Writer Stockly read another man's story which changed his life considerably. The story was Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls. "I thought there must be something to this bull fighting," he said, and began to read more on the subject. "I became an aficionado by literary means." Then he did it the real way, took six months' leave of absence to tour the bull rings of Spain. He now takes his summer vacations in the winter to see the fights in Mexico...
...Belloc gave up letters. He was already an old man. He lived on in his Sussex farmhouse, a short, stout figure, red of face, wearing a collar several times too large for him, a black hat on his round head. People said he looked like a typical John Bull. There last week, at the age of 82, he fell into his living-room fire, died four days later from burns. Years ago he had written...
...real Spanish corrida, was carried away by the excitement of it all when the torero, Chicuelo, toured the arena and was showered by a complimentary cascade of hats, cigars and flowers. Hedda whipped off her own ostrich-feather, Parisian cartwheel hat (by Jacques Path) and skimmed it into the bull ring. "I know I threw away a $100 hat," she said, "but I certainly got more than one thousand dollars worth of thrills...
Wall Street has a good thing to sell. Common stocks on the exchange are paying close to their highest return in history-an average 6% v. 3.48% in 1929 and 4.87% in the last prewar bull market of 1937. What is more, during an inflationary period, the stock market is "safer" than Government bonds, since stock prices generally go up as the value of the dollar declines. The holder of a Government bond, on the other hand, loses to the extent that the dollar's purchasing power decreases...
Crushing Argument. Near Baxley, Ga., distributing handbills attacking a proposed law to curb cattle on highways, R. C. Carter changed his mind, became an active supporter of the measure after his car struck a stray bull and was smashed...