Word: cougar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshfield, Ore., a cougar leaped to the back of a cow belonging to Farmer W. J. Ocheltree. When it leaped off again to attack him, Farmer Ocheltree kicked it four times in the face, made it run. Then he dogged, treed, shot...
Leaping and snarling like a small, vivacious cougar, Rev. William A. Sunday preached at the Coliseum, in St. Louis. It was the fifth week of the projected seven-week revival meeting; Billy Sunday had signed up about 4,000 converts and he wanted some more. He gave a "sermon" on "The Three Crosses" and talked about the opera Faust, in which Marguerite, a pregnant girl, dies of broken-heart. Said Billy Sunday...
Senator Borah of Idaho called on Mr. Hoover in Washington and invited him, in the name of Governor H. C. Baldridge and other Republican Idahosts, to go to their state next month and hunt wild animals. Senator Borah promised "cougar, elk, moose, mountain goats, deer, bears or eight delegates. It is really a wonderful country." Mr. Hoover declared he would gladly hunt in Idaho...
...base, well away from third, and the infield will be completed by R.A. Magowan '27, who will cover the hot corner. Magowan, besides being on excellent terms with the Prince's third base coach, is such a ferocious hitter that he has become known as the Growler or the Cougar. An the basepaths he is usually referred to as Teargrass...
...times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week, one C. E. Miller let it be known that in some white gypsum hills near Estelline, Tex., he had found a colony of extraordinary creatures, captured one and made...