Word: cockfighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collected lumberjack stories, lived with State troopers, made friends with a professional rattlesnake hunter and caught a rattlesnake himself, interviewed two surviving Shakers in Mount Lebanon, lived in the famed Oneida Community, went to a cockfight near Syracuse, always tried to find, in the local customs, turns of speech, characteristics, meaningful survivals from the richly spiritual past. Even readers who feel that Author Carmer has mistaken the pulsebeat of his own psychic interests for distant drumbeats are likely to be impressed by this sympathetic account of oddments in his native State...
Persons unfamiliar with the ancient sport of cockfighting imagine it to be a sinister and ugly pastime, practiced in the dead of night by sadistic thugs. Such persons know of its existence in the U. S. mainly from publicity given trifling episodes such as the one which occurred last week near Avon, N. Y. State police were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized...
...cockfight in the Canawaugus Inn last week was unusual only because it was interrupted in a way which cockers are usually clever enough to avoid. Otherwise it greatly resembled hundreds of others held every week all over the U. S. where the sport is illegal in almost every state...
...fell down the steps in a Brooklyn subway station suffered a broken arm, many a bruise. In bed he reminisced. Of the late great Editor Charles Anderson Dana: "And who do you think he brought along with him? Roscoe Conklin, the Senator. They sat up all night at that cockfight." Of John L. Sullivan: "I made John L. sports editor of my sheet [The Illustrated News']. It was handy . . . whenever I wanted to roast anyone I would put the roasting in Sullivan's column. Nobody ever made any objection." Of The Police Gazette...
...generally accepted is this illegal sport that last week advertisements introducing to the U. S. the Austin, smart diminutive vehicle, using a caricature of a bantam cock for an emblem, carried a bright series of colored pictures showing five crises in the course of a cockfight (TIME, March...