Word: foxhunter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, it has the same characteristics as the foxhound: keen scent, melodious voice (higher-pitched than the foxhound's), a fierce determination to make that tackle. Although many U. S. hunters use beagles to track rabbits, the sport of beagling-in olden days "the poor man's foxhunt"-has remained a Tory pastime ever since the first beagle pack was imported from England...
...Killed (1934) during a foxhunt...
...pledged in advance, Banker Harvey Dow Gibson, chairman for the second year of New York City's Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, formally opened its $15,000,000 drive. His business & professional sub-committees working smoothly. Chairman Gibson went home to his Long Island estate, rode out on a foxhunt, collided with a hanging tree branch. Blood streaming down his face, he hurried to a physician, had the wound stitched up, finished the hunt...