Word: deere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentle as a deer and as ugly as a monkey, little El Ouati, the Algerian Marathon runner who won the Olympic race at Amsterdam last summer came to the U. S. in order to race for Promoter Bill ("Easy") Pickens. Last fortnight in Manhattan, he ran against Joie Ray whom he had beaten, by a last minute sprint, at Amsterdam; with frightened looks behind him and a low scooping stride. El Ouati beat Ray for the second time by seven laps. After this race it was planned to send El Ouati and Joie Ray on a tour...
...millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath, bereaved cattlemen still grumbled, but the disease was stamped...
...Into Lake Superior fled a deer. At it Winnebijou flung stones. Stones missed deer, but up sprang some islands, which centuries later White Man named Apostle Islands. The President was said to have discussed, last week, with Mrs. Coolidge the pros and cons of visiting the scene of this Chippewa legend. ¶With newsmen, the President's only weighty discussion concerned the Kellogg multilateral treaty. While no longer permitting newsmen to speak of him as a mere "spokesman" for himself, the President still refuses to be quoted directly, thus making it easier for him to deny anything which newsmen...
...Sioux last year. This year the whole G. 0. P. affiliated itself with the Kaw & Osage tribes through Nominee Curtis. Notable among individual joinings this season was an event last week in Wisconsin. Sol Levitan, Jew, the State Treasurer, became Tchay-Ska-Kah, or Der Weisser Bock, or White Deer, a chief in the Winnebago tribe...
...partisans, recalling that the Herald Tribune had printed something sportsmanlike about Nominee Smith the week previous (TIME, July 9), concluded that now the score was evened. Facts of the crippled-boy's-deer-seized-for-Smith-zoo story were these...