Word: elk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elk fill gem hen fro ? from jog pop fig but sill...
...Elk and a Moose. In North Attleboro, he lives in a frame house on Grove Street with his invalid mother, a widowed sister and his brother Charles. His favorite recreation: walking. His only hobby: collecting miniature elephants...
...fights old age. He still goes elk hunting (in a jeep), deliberately loses the cane he was forced to adopt, still smokes 30 cigarettes a day (they are specially rolled for him by one Mrs. Matilda Granditzky, of Sweden's tobacco monopoly). Recently he demonstrated his favorite acrobatic trick to his gasping entourage: sitting on a chair, he lifted both legs and placed his feet behind his ears...
Sweden's King Gustaf V was still doing just dandy at 89. First day out on a hunting trip in piny central Sweden, his towering majesty bagged three elk-one shot to an elk...
...nearly did. He was talking about United's safety record (no fatalities in over 3½ years). "Why," he boasted in a speech, "even if we had an accident tonight, I would still believe that it is a good record." That night United did have a crash on Elk Mountain, Wyoming (21 killed), the worst in United's history. Pat has never forgotten that lesson. Despite his habit of being right, he gets on well with most other airmen, even better with his employees, especially his pilots (David Behncke, hard-to-please boss of the gold-plated pilots...