Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twelve miles south of historic Kitty Hawk, site of the Wright brothers' first airplane flight...
...mountain meadow. It is strictly in costume, the more outlandish and inane the better. Lunches are packed, fires are kindled, and as the afternoon's spectacle progresses, sitters (thousands come, anyone who has the price of admission) munch and watch. The colonists sell their batiks, paintings, arty gadgets. Newsboys hawk a special edition of the bulletin. Late in the afternoon a costume promenade winds infor- mally up & down wooded slope and dale. In the evening the campfires glow and a pageant is enacted. Always there has been a midnight costume ball but this year it was called off to placate...
...hawk and the mighty He with his thunderstick all take turns at the Fifteen Rabbits, a group which, like the Forty-Nine Bottles, solemnly and inevitably diminishes. Hops and his affinity Plana, both first appearing as babes, enjoy lucky escapes, but little Epi, their companion, is seized by some young Hes and Shes and dies in captivity, piteously. The remaining ones cavort and chatter, their ears droop and rise, their whiskers twitch, and they meet various fates. Later appears Iago, an embittered dog who tried to go native but found he had no talent for it. He inadvertently assists Hops...
After three worried days, Ross received a radio message from Camp Dix (Wrightstown, N. J.). A Fort Monmouth bird had come down there badly wounded. He hurried to Camp Dix, found his Molly. Like many another pigeon, she had been attacked by a hawk. There was a big hole in her back. Her weight, usually 14 oz., was down to six. Although sad to see Molly's condition, Pigeonman Ross was proud that she had chosen an Army camp for refuge. She had never seen Camp Dix before...
Target shooting in Switzerland is still as much of a national sport as it was in the U. S. in 1830. Hawk-eyed Swiss hold nearly all the free-rifle records in the world. Their team world's record, made in Stockholm last year, is 5,442 out of a possible 6,000. On an International target, two inches at 300 metres is all that separates a 10-point bullseye from...