Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago had been "sold" in that same pulpit; after 67 years "Pinky" had come back to Plymouth Church. It was to aid in celebrating the 80th anniversary of Henry Ward Beecher's first sermon at Plymouth Church that "Pinky," now Mrs. James Hunt, of Washington, D. C., returned. She was born a slave in 1851 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md. When she was seven years old her mother and two brothers were sold to a Virginia plantation; she never saw them again. Soon after, she and her grandmother were sold to a slave trader in Baltimore. Later...
...Around Richland and Madison, La., the flood swept through the finest hunting grounds on the continent. Here Theodore Roosevelt and Flood Relief Director John M. Parker used together to hunt quail, deer, bears, wild turkey...
Chang. How did they do it? is the question everyone asks. The picture runs along on astonishingly familiar terms with the terrors of the Siamese jungle. It photographs elephants from under their feet, "shoots" tigers almost in their jaws, films a family of bears at play, leopards on the hunt, snakes in death struggles, monkeys a clowning, elephants nudging a village into oblivion. Dramatically, it is an account of the family of one Kru, of Siam, how he preserves his life and propagates his kind in the face of hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes...
...annual Pops Concerts of Boston, to be held this year between May 2 and July 2, date back to the earliest stages of Boston's musical history. They are indeed as much a part of Boston as the Common or the golden-dome of the State House. One would hunt in vain in other cities for anything just like the Pops...
...Braintree, Mass., and robbed of a payroll of $15,000 by two men who "looked like Italians." May 5, 1920. Two Italians who lived near South Braintree-Nicola Sacco, shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler-were arrested as suspicious characters. The U. S. was then on a rabid radical hunt. Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were on the Red lists. July 14, 1921. A jury found Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of the South Braintree murders on the following evidence: Factory-window witnesses, who had previously identified other Italians as participants in the crime, swore that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were...