Word: deer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action all takes place in twenty-four hours in the Austrian Tyrol, with most of it transpiring in the Rote Hirsh or Reed Deer Inn presided over by a handsome young man. To the Hotel, on her holiday, comes an English school teacher whose life has been atrofied by a lifetime of teaching. The romance between the two lasts only for a day and a night; but during that time there comes for the girl an emotional awakening, a balcony scene taken right from "Romeo and Juliet", tragedy in the discovery of her lover's status as a husband...
...late years been observed in Russia and Japan, U. S. medical men boast of it as "the first American disease." Butchers and trappers have long known that a strange sickness sometimes came from skinning rabbits. Beginning in 1907 various U. S. physicians described illnesses which they called "rabbit fever," "deer-fly fever," "a plaguelike disease of rodents." In 1912 Drs. George Walter McCoy and Charles Willard Chapin of the U. S. Public Health Service isolated a new organism from sick ground-squirrels in Tulare County, Calif., named it Bacterium tularense after the county. Not until 1921 did Dr. Edward Francis...
...Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, Clyde Deer, 230-lb. guard, was sipping his breakfast coffee near the cell block of desperate prisoners when he suddenly was set upon with clubs by seven convicts headed by Life Termers Jim Clark and Bob Brady. Participants in the Memorial Day jail break, they seized Guard Deer's keys, locked him and several trusties in a cell, spent 20 minutes building a ladder, rushed it across the baseball diamond and climbed over the prison wall under cover of a fog and under fire of guards...
...pheasants without limit on season, bag or sex. Many a new York farmer is doing a nice business at $6 to §15 per gun per day. Texas, where gamewise farmers have been compensated for nine years, this year has 3,700.000 privately-owned acres open to hunters of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys. The gunner pays the farmer not more than $4 a day or 25^ per acre per season. Georgia's game commission has begun sending out lists of game farms. - Nebraska and Colorado have a scrip scheme whereby hunters pay farmers one coupon for each bird...
Zoologists count antler points on each antler, speak of a 5 + 6 point deer. Hunters usually add the points on both antlers...