Word: feats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Winks, Presidential setter pup: on the White House lawn, from concussion of the brain, after running into an iron fence while romping with a bull terrier belonging to a Secret Service man. Winks's most famed feat was the consumption of twelve plates of bacon and eggs, laid for breakfast in the servants' dining room of the White House...
...their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal to facilitate shackling for slaughter. It is a feat of skill rather than of strength. Neither Dempsey nor Corbett could match the practiced steer-knocker's formula of one knock per steer...
...While still only War Minister he reorganized the Army and made it his own by insuring regular pay for the first time in living Persian memory. To do this he had to detach a section of the Ministry of Finance and incorporate it into the Ministry of War. That feat showed who was really No. 1 man in Persia. In 1923 frightened Ahmed Shah fled to the fleshpots of Paris. Two years later Riza Pahlevi, by that time Premier, was elected by the Majlis to be Shah and King of Kings with "full powers" which make him in fact independent...
...clues. Who but Sir Bernard could have brought to justice Norman Thorne who hanged his sweetheart and then buried her deep beneath the plowed topsoil of his farm? The latest achievement of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British readers were reminded by the million last week, was his feat in persuading a jury to send Reginald Hicks to the gallows for holding his father-in-law's head in an oven with the gas turned on. Reginald Hicks insisted that his father-in-law turned on the gas and stuck his own head into the oven. But, as a result...
...British Fascist, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, put on a one-man show before 15.000 Londoners last week which ended in a hundred fist fights, scores of hair pullings and some bloody work with razors. Sir Oswald drew no blood but a good many shrugs by his feat seven weeks ago of filling Albert Hall with 10,000 London ers whose applause of his hour and a half speech left the nation cold. Only the Communists seemed to take Sir Oswald seriously. They turned out last week by hundreds when he packed vast Olympia, the six-acre hall in which Their...