Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cesaire. Que. took his automobile and went for hunt the big bull moose. Returning home from a night call he saw a moose cross his lawn and start up the village street. Dr. Beauchamp stepped on the gas, gave chase. When the moose turned up a blind street, he was able to crash it with his car against a brick wall, the animal's legs getting caught under the wheels...
...newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER. One drawn by two oxen announced: WE'LL GET THERE REGARDLESS OF HOOVER AND THIS AIN'T NO BULL. Goldsboro businessmen offered prizes to winners of chariot races, mulecart races, goatcart races; races of carts with pneumatic tires, carts with straw-stuffed tires, carts with no tires at all. A milling company that offered three pounds of grits to each entrant gave away more than...
...explored his beloved stratosphere ten miles above Earth-highest man has ever gone. Last week a man who wears a metal band to support his head because his neck was broken flying in the War nearly intruded upon frail Professor Piccard's rarefied kingdom. In a specially lightened Bull Pup plane powered with a 550-h. p. Pegasus motor. Chief Test Pilot Cyril Unwins of Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., soared 45,000 ft.- more than eight miles above the Severn Valley. Classified as an "interceptor" in the Royal Air Force, the British fighting pursuit plane, equipped...
...regular corrida six bulls are killed (20 minutes to a bull) by three matadors working alternately with their own subordinate team of picadors and banderilleros. When the bull first comes in he is played by banderillero and matador with capes. Then the mounted picadors enter, the bull charges them, often kills the horse but always gets a wound in the shoulder-muscle from the picador's lance. Next, four pairs of banderillas (barbed wooden shafts) are stuck into the top of the bull's neck by the banderilleros or, with musical accompaniment, by the matador himself. Then the matador takes...
Hemingway has seen hundreds of bullfights, all the best contemporary matadors, regards himself as an authority. He gives his frank, often violently stated opinion of all of them: the late Maera who killed one of his last bulls with a dislocated wrist, after five tries; the cowardly Cagancho who is wonderful with a bull he trusts, wretched with all others; Rafael El Gallo, famed for his final appearances and for his shamelessness in refusing even to try to kill a bull who looks at him in a way he does not like; the late great Joselito who killed...