Word: hunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Nov. 12 under "Governors" you comment on Gov. George. W. P. Hunt of Arizona as follows: "Unique among all U. S. political executives is Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt.'' Then follows a farrago of inanities of personal description such as "once strong as an ox, now 69 and bald as a turtle," etc. and "No U. S. mustache is more famed than his. Once frowsy and walrusy, it is now smartly waxed." How, in the name of common sense does this latter connect up with or throw light upon his uniqueness? When the editor...
Wafted along by George Gershwin's symphonies, the story is that of a highborn scioness, financially but never socially embarrassed, who wins a treasure hunt and marries a paste-board realtor. So light a continuity suits the demands of airy tunes and jokes, but the moments in which hijackers threaten the treasure hunters, and those in which Leading Lady Lawrence is compelled to grow tempestuous about her silly suitor, do not. With any other actress, the show would be a flop; but Gertrude Lawrence makes it more than acceptable entertainment...
...battle flags were furled on Soldiers Field yesterday when Coach Horween decreed that the first two days of this week should be days of rest for his University football squad. Locker building and playing fields were deserted yesterday afternoon, and today the players will journey out to the Myopia Hunt Club for a light workout...
...University soccer team meets an eleven from the Graduate Schools in an informal game at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field today. The summary of the 1932 game follows: HARVARD 1932 BROWN 1932 Powell g. g. Smith Blake l.f.b.n r.f.b. Edgerly Catinella r.f.b. l.f.b. Eccleston Howe, i.h.b. r.h.b. Hunt Tewkesbury c.h.b c.h.b. Rassmusaen Caturani, r.h.b l.h.b. Sydney Kane, o.f o.r. Pilkington Dorman, i.i l.r. Goldberg Broadbent, c.f. c.f. Presba Frame, l.r. l.l. Judd Vincent, o.r o.l. quinn...
Died. Mrs. Rose ("Pinky") Ward Hunt, 77, famed onetime slave; after a brief illness; in Washington, D. C. In 1860 Pastor Henry Ward Beecher bought Pinky for $900. From the pulpit of his Brooklyn church he then sold her to freedom. As Pastor Beecher intended, the sale impressed northerners...