Word: hillmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased the Khan because it meant the regiment would follow through the pass to certain slaughter. When Old Boots ignored the volleys of the hillmen to stalk up alone for a confab, the Khan changed his mind about the slaughter. Wee Willie Winkie is a craftsman's picture which is also, surpassingly, an audience's picture. To able Associate Producer Gene Markey goes credit for seeing how the suggestions implicit in the Kipling fragment...
...from New Jersey to the Dutch East Indies as a provisional triumph for U. S. oil. It would have been less provisional were Afghanistan better recognized as a potential oil source. Until a few years ago neither oil prospectors nor anyone else traveled freely among the rifle-bearing Afghan hillmen. The potentiality of Afghan oil fields is something presumably best known to Inland. In Manhattan last week Seaboard's President John Meston Lovejoy, who is also president of Inland Exploration Co., remarked with restraint that the concession was an opportunity to spend a lot of money. Said cautious President...
...says, that John Gibson, the father, with a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught the 22-year-old Negro, named E. K. Harris, accused of the rape, and took him to the Shelbyville Jail, and a hillbilly mob demanded Harris be turned over to them. These statements are untrue. . . . There was no hillbilly mob. Mr. Gibson is not a hillbilly...
That night John Gibson, Lillian's father, and a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught a 22-year-old illiterate Negro named E. K. Harris. He was accused of Lillian's rape, taken to the Shelbyville jail. When a hillbilly mob went to Shelbyville, demanding that Harris be turned over to them, authorities spirited Harris away, first to Murfreesboro, then up to Nashville...
...group of German climbers leaving to attempt the Mountain of Horror. The party was led by Willi Merkl, who had failed to reach the top two years before when his porters, mountain-sick and frightened, balked. This year pains were taken to find the hardiest and pluckiest hillmen obtainable. Last week came news of disaster...