Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some time the bull-necked War Minister has been weeding out of Japan's military elite officers hostile to his clique. Some of the roughest weeding, the most heartbreaking demotions and transfers of brilliant, high-strung fighters to humdrum posts, was done by General Nagata, assassinated last week to the high-strung satisfaction of an Army crowd younger than groveling old Hayashi...
Since women are barred from fighting bulls professionally in Spain, they can break into this lucrative industry only by dire expedients. In Madrid last week beauteous blonde Maruja Fernandez, who was a beauteous brunette two years ago when she broke into the bull ring for charity performances, declared: "I believe the Spanish fighting bull is nobler than man. Man is not like the fighting bull which will follow your cape if you are skillful. Man is always seeking advantages and trying to keep woman at a disadvantage. A fighting bull thrills me more than any man I have ever...
...crowd that saw Al Vanderbilt's Postage Due win the United States Hotel Stakes were New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz, Producer George White, Sportsman Joseph E. Widener and, wearing the aged panama hat which is his uniform for the Saratoga season, George H. Bull, portly president of the Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses...
...beneath a brave's dignity to show jealousy. For two weeks each year the Crow engaged in a curious custom of wife-stealing, and after a general reshuffling of households the stolen wives were usually turned loose, could enter any wigwam save that of a onetime husband. Gray-bull, a chief who gave Ethnologist Lowie much information on ancient Crow ways and legend, had been a savage Galahad in his youth. Deeply loving his wife, he had nevertheless forced her to accompany her kidnapper out of respect for Crow etiquette. "If you have ever been married, you know...
...throw stones into the water, crying "icbirikyū' bābirikyū'p" so that the last syllable coincided exactly with the splash. Little Crow girls played house, enjoyed the women's game of shinny. Dice was also considered a woman's game. Gray- bull spoke of squaws who were always shooting dice with the impatient air of a white husband complaining about his wife's bridge...