Word: deering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...currency of some ancient empire, but for a U. S. $5 goldpiece issued in California in 1849. The coin was privately minted, at the time of the Gold Rush, for the Massachusetts & California Co. Its face depicts a cowboy busy with a lariat, a bear and a deer. For it a Philadelphia dealer, acting on behalf of an anonymous client, bid $7,900. The coin came from the big collection of the late Dr. George Alfred Lawrence, Manhattan neurologist...
...Hide Exchange deals only in hides of the cow family. Individual hide houses handle also horse hides, deer hides, but these hides have no Exchange. Skins of other animals are dealt with by furriers and taxidermists...
...jury of his New Jersey peers heard him make his admission. It was just a "lark" for him, he said. He and four other New Jerseyites had been shooting at a target in one of their back yards. They drank some New Jersey stuff and decided to go hunting deer. They sighted the Los Angeles. Merton Hankins wanted a ride. He waved his hands. He shouted. He jumped up and down. He turned capers. Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley of the Los Angeles paid no heed, so Merton Hankins fired his shotgun at the ship, he said, "just to attract...
...tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe. Mrs. Coolidge, who likes swimming, will doubtless try the mansion's blue-tiled, glass-domed swimming pool...
Caribou, Mountain Goat, Elk, Deer will be hunted by rich men in the U. S., with 45-70 or 30-30 rifles. (In Colton, N. Y., Mrs. Amber Reed took aim at a deer and killed instead Mrs. Fred Myers who was standing nearby...