Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward of Wales, suntanned, pipe-smoking, clad in rush-stained tropic gear, stood his ground, cranked his cinecamera while his comrades shot down a charging bull elephant 20 yards away...
...Raymond Robins of Chicago, oldtime Bull Mooser: "Even the Wets piously declare they do not want the saloon, but a rose by any other name is still a rose. . . . The saloon is simply a place where men drink liquor, even if we painted it white, sold lilies at the door and had Uncle Sam for a bartender...
President of the Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. is Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger, potent internationalist, chairman of the great Anglo-French banking firm of Erlangers, Ltd., naturalized Briton. Enthusiastic fellow supporters include H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born London department store tycoon, and Sir William Bull, senior partner of Bull and Bull, eloquent solicitors. They were pleased but cautious at last week's report. Beside the obvious opposition of cross-Channel steamship companies, other timorous Tories like Lord Ebbisham, the Channel tunnel must still be approved by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
...Armenian Greek in his 60's, he has a domed, shaven head, piercing dark eyes in an oval face, a walrus mustache, bull neck, a paunch, huge muscles. He is unaccountable, unpredictable. A clever man, he acts sometimes like a lunatic, sometimes like a genius, sometimes like a child. He loves to laugh, apparently enjoys being angry...
Sidney Franklin (real name: Frumkin), Brooklyn matador, was tossed high, gored badly in the groin by a big, black, sharp-horned bull, in his second appearance this season at Madrid. Week before last he killed four animals in one afternoon...