Word: elk
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Hazard. In South Bend, Wash., the local game protector reported elk were crowding the highways, bumming cigarets from autoists. He explained the elk were not smokers, but chawers...
Preserve. In Ouray, Colo., citizens were forbidden to hunt elk on Main Street...
Beaming like the good Baptist, Elk, and Coshocton, Ohio Democrat that he is, amiable old Bill Green strolled in at the Miami-Biltmore Pools to see this year's Miss Florida picked, plopped into a wicker chair next to one that astonishingly enough contained Fandangler Sally Rand, promptly discovered that her conversational resources were also very compelling...
...idle, spoiled young Key Pittman-perhaps the last old frontiersman to sit in the U. S. Senate. One day in 1892 (he was 20) he was leaning on his cue in a Tuscaloosa, Ala. poolroom, when he saw on a chair a brilliantly colored hunting magazine, its cover an elk's head. He decided to go to the Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest. He had no particular goal, and only one letter of introduction. A friend of his father...
...Pittman lost interest in elk. He sank his whole inheritance in boomtown lots in Seattle. He listened eagerly to tales of a gold strike in the Klondike. He headed north. In the Klondike he was soon chopping wood for a living. Chasing whispers of gold in Alaska, Pittman mushed over the snow wastelands to Nome, to find that the tough guys were running affairs. But vigilantes took over, and Key Pittman got his first real job: he became Nome's first prosecuting attorney. By 1901 he had absorbed just enough law to give him a belief he always cherished...