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...more swank ritual is observed by sitting in a "butt" or comfortable shelter and allowing a crescent-moon shaped line of human "beaters" to herd the game gently along until it can be flushed so as to fly directly over...
Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., Manhattan, and John Sherwin, Chairman of the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, onetime managers of the company and the butt of stockholders' criticism, were elected directors...
...bottles were placed butt on cap "they would make a pencil of glass 63 miles high." They contained sufficient drink "to supply every man, woman and child in Oregon with a glassful." The glassful would be cold, for the freight cars were refrigerated. They made up "the first solid train of trademarked merchandise ever to pull out of New England...
...readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear gas, riot guns, and perhaps even machine guns. Certainly innocent by-standers would have suffered and private property...
Because the Chicago Board of Trade, if its officials had been conscientiously alert, might have prevented the Armour Grain Co. frauds (TIME, April 25 et ante), the Board has been the butt of severe criticism. Last week the situation...