Word: herds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Civil War, the Confederates captured most of Jefferson Davis' dromedary herd. But Confederate Colonel Bethel Coopwood of Texas got 14 for himself, sent them over the line into Mexico. The rest were recaptured by the Federals, who in 1866 abandoned all camel experiments and offered the beasts for sale...
Last week Colonel Coopwood's descendants told the following story: Colonel Coopwood bought all the available dromedaries at $31 per head, took them to join his original 14 in Mexico. But when he drove the entire herd back into Texas, they were seized by the U. S. as stolen goods. Colonel Coopwood filed a claim against the Government, vainly pressed it during his lifetime. Last week's news was revival of the claim by Coopwood descendants. After the Government seized the Coopwood camels, they were turned loose in Arizona where they thrived, propagated. In 1870 a Nevada saltminer...
...intrude on the campusian walks of America's Greatest Women's College. So saying, the Vagabond will leave the shades of Sophia Smith with a parting admonition to the effect that the entertainment consists mostly of absorbing the cleverest, catchiest, and downright distinctive set of rules governing any herd of femmes congregated anywhere. To make the game a bit more interesting this writer will give a slight hint just to get the ball rolling, so to speak: Don't kick any bottles over. Penalty double in this case...
...this?jungle newsreels which have taken a tremendous amount of time, skill and money to make, but which are inevitably dull for long stretches. Sequences from Africa Speaks which would qualify for inclusion: a swarm of locusts darkening the skies, covering the ground six inches deep, dispersing a herd of gnu, eating all the foliage off a tree; a lion killing a native boy in a scene which (if not faked) is one of the grimmest ever judged fit for public release; a strange kind of antelope called the illampa jumping 40 ft. through the air in slow motion; flamingoes...
...admitted to the dining hall and the failure of the electricity were undoubtedly unforeseen mishaps which will not reoccur. Nevertheless there still remained the spectacle of a group of performers, making a stage entrance in their dinner jackets, eating, it seemed, almost as a lesson in manners to the herd seated down in the pit, and then making an exit which gave the signal to the 250-odd undergraduates that the show was ended, that they could leave the room...