Word: hunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patrol wagons were soon filled as the police got the situation well in hand. Scattered melees between officers and small bodies of students continued, but after the police had here once again been victorious, the "action" turned into a man hunt, with the police seizing all those present in the Square...
News. The Patterson-McCormick Daily News delivered such headlines as "PEACHES'S BRIDAL SECRETS," "HUNT PEACHES'S 50 SHEIKS," "OUTLAW GOLDDIGGERS! PLEADS BROWNING," "BLED OF CASH-DADDY." (The News, to be "different," sided with Mr. Browning.) All the tabloids, of course, published judiciously selected slices of the testimony...
...merry ditty on the hunt introduces us to the Hall of Fame, which is unfortunate in itself because the lead is not characteristic, and the rhyme scheme, borrowed from the "Night Before Christmas" (we suppose with apologies to Santa Claus) lacks ingenuity. This is the first vision in Lampy's nightmare. We turn the page and the inconsistency staggers us. Herman's wife, William Tell, Cyrano de Bergerac and something indelicate about women undressing in newspaper headlines, poke the spectator feebly in the ribs but no responsive laugh comes forth, because there is no sense of reality...
...Little Louisiana Lottery. The two men introduced themselves and went off for lunch together. Great exploits were in the air. Neither of the adventurers had a partner. During lunch they eyed each other like a pair of strange coyotes, but instead of flying for throatholds, they decided to hunt shoulder to shoulder...
...Ladies and gentlemen! I have said, and still maintain, that essentially, when considered objectively, the Jew is an excellent individual. But is not the rose-beetle with its iridescent wings essentially also an excellent creature? ... Is not the tiger . . . and do we not hunt...