Word: elks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall in November, 1921. Between April and December of the following year, Mr. Fall, acting on behalf of the Navy Department, granted to two of Mr. Doheny's companies leases to exploit on a royalty basis Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (at Elk Hills, California), and contracts whereby the Doheny companies were to construct oil-storage tanks at the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which were to be paid for by the Government...
Crazy Horse, Lame Deer, Spotted Eagle, Elk Horn, Broad Road, Natchez and, most bloody of all, Geronimo the Apache and, most formidable, Sitting Bull- down they went, years ago, before Big Chief Bear Coat...
With these restrictions, the zoo may do a land-office business in job-lots of beasts, with salutary educational effects on the fraternal brothers, many of whom do not even know what their chosen beast looks like. Prospective "brothers" may thus avoid the mistake of the Elks, who saw a moose, admired it, and, under the impression that it was an elk, named themselves after...
Meanwhile two civil suits have been tried?one in California for the cancelation of Mr. Doheny's lease of the Elk Hills reserve, one in Wyoming for the cancelation of Mr. Sinclair's lease of Teapot Dome. Decisions have not been handed down. In any event, no jail sentence and no criminality is involved...
...three days, various sorts of dogs padded around a sawdust circle-terriers, shepherds, spaniels, collies, retrievers, chihauhuas, whippets, elk-hounds, greyhounds, wolfhounds, setters, pointers, pinschers, griffons, poodles, pugs, Newfoundlands, Pomeranians, beagles, basset hounds, bulldogs-while humans in corresponding variety watched them with admiring gaze. At last, after many ribbons had been awarded, it was time to decide which was the best...