Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drink, sing and swagger on the 24th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run through which they all had fought. 34 Civil War Veterans of Company B, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, met at an inn at Stillwater. Minn, in 1885. There they organized the Last Man Club, pledged to assemble annually until only one member survived. Into a rosewood box they put a bottle of Burgundy with which the Last Man was to toast his dead comrades...
...Gaceta Oficial published verbatim the taurine code revised, a document longer (ten quarter newspaper pages) than the text of the London Naval Treaty. Rejoicing was great, for just as cockfighting was resumed after the fall of strict Dictator Primo, so it was seen that Spain's bull- killing will regain a touch of ferocious color which "humane" Primo forbade. Permitted once more are the banderillas de fuego-the fire darts which, after their steel points have been stuck firmly into the bull, explode with infuriating effect...
Other changes in the rules: Where formerly children under 14 were not admitted to fights, now all may go. All must pay, except sucklings. To ensure lively fights and no decrepit bulls, the latter must be at least four and no more than seven years old; must weigh at least 470 kilos (approx. 1128 lb.). They shall receive at least three punzadas (goadings), and more if not particularly brave or wild. Other parts of the code provide that: There shall be four horses for each bull, all horses to be at least 2.7 metres high...
...goads shall be 2.70 metres long ending in a triangular steel sticker with a flattened point. The point will have a circular guard of iron seven centimetres in diameter, three centimetres thick, to prevent undue laceration of the bull's skin...
...SAID TO MR. MORGAN-Michael Shepard-Greenberg ($2). In this not too sprightly, not too spiteful burlesque, Author Shepard chaffs the (now temporarily defunct) smalltime Wall Street operator who makes a few lucky killings in a bull market and fancies himself a financier. On the side and from time to time he also chaffs men of less strawy mold, notably Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell (National City) for his extremely bullish utterances, his apparent unawareness of what was going on, just before the late great stockmarket crash. Otto Munson, umbrella-rib manufacturer, sells his business for $20,000 and buys everything...