Word: herds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunting. Both his cunning and their savagery are depicted with such clarity, plausibility and genuineness that those fortunate enough to be in the audience can only marvel at the intrepidity of the photographers, and ponder how insolently the net prevails over the claw. The big scene shows a great herd of chang (elephants) being driven into a trap by fear of natives camouflaged as bushes...
...TEXAS GUINAN FREE, HOLDS KISSING BEE" euphonistically wrote a New York headline writer. "Texas" Guinan, night club hostess, once virile out-of-door woman, helped her brother "Texas Tommy" herd cattle at the age of ten. Last week, freed by Federal Judge Thomas Thacher of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately...
...large group of people who were being taught to survey their own country with scorn and amusement would form a concentrated market for his imports. Doubtless he also felt some of that superior altruism which a generous man, conscious of his own culture, experiences in helping to uplift the herd. For though Editor Mencken stoutly denies that he is a reformer, an apostle of anything, yet he has written his own definition: "There are also persons who oscillate beautifully between the Uplift and honest lives." Politics, osteopathy, Baptist-thumping, Rotary-scourging, prostitution in Missouri, absurdity in the press, failed...
...Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction- which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator...
Once the whaleboat under his direction was attacked by a herd of infuriated walruses. Two arrows had been shot into the leading bull by a member of the crew who hunted with Indian weapons. At the last moment Bartlett leaped to the bow and plunged and Eskino lance into the beast. The bull gave a great gasp and rolled over. The rest of the herd seemed to lost heart. With vengeful snorts they turned about and retreated...