Word: burgoo
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Wasn't that a typographical error in the story you published in the current issue of TIME (July 25, p. 23, col. 3) under the head: "Elks" where you refer to them at their Cincinnati convention as 5,000 strong, "marching, singing, trapshooting, eating 'burgoo' [Kentucky stew], watching fire-works." I visited Cincinnati the following week and heard nothing of trapshooting, but everybody could point out to me the big hotel in front of which crap-shooting was indulged in openly and without molestation by the police authorities. Of course I was told this with a wry face...
...badly crowded. Though 10,000 Elks dropped out or died in the past year, there are still more than 800,000 of them, in all walks of life.* Cincinnati felt comfortably full last week with some 5,000 of the 800,000 on hand?marching, singing, trapshooting, eating "burgoo" (Kentucky stew), watching fireworks. Purple, the Elk's color, hung everywhere. "Hello, Bill! Are you an Elk?"* was the phrase of the week...