Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parades, no salutes, this was to be just a pleasure jaunt and big game hunt through Africa. But Britain's leading special correspondents stalked in the offing, nosing after every elusive atom of royal news...
When a privileged correspondent asked Edward of Wales, last week, whether he would hunt rhinoceroses, H. R. H. launched into chatty discussion of a topic now hotly debated between white huntsmen in Africa...
Richard Ely Danielson is a master of fox hounds (Groton Hunt), edits The Sportsman (sport monthly), has no time for any but amateur sports. In the September issue of his magazine he flays William Tatem Tilden II, unfrocked racqueteer, for endorsing cigarets, giving interviews for pay, otherwise professionalizing sacrosanct tennis. Says Foxhunter-Editor Danielson: "We believe that the game should be cleansed ... of the shamateurs who now dominate...
While the King of Spain played polo at San Sebastian; while the King of Britain yachted coolly at Cowes; while the President of Germany saw to the launching of two great steamships before repairing to Bavaria to hunt chamois; while the President of France rested at Rambouillet prior to exerting himself in honor of the visiting U. S. Secretary of State-the President of the U. S. continued casting flies and reeling in trout in the northwest corner of Wisconsin...
...their own right. And the G. O. P. vote was no index to Hooverism since it contained a town-v.-country aftermath of the Hoover-Willis fight for Ohio's delegates to the Presidential convention. Moreover, Dry Democrat Locher's victory over Wet Democrat Graham P. Hunt of Cincinnati seemed reversed when errors were discovered in the vote-counting. It looked as if Mr. Hunt had really finished 96 votes ahead of Mr. Locher. A complete official recheck by Ohio's 88 county election boards was necessary, a full week...