Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago this brown-haired wife of the world's most prominent publisher met Dr.Max Thorek, Chicago gall bladder exciser. Dr. Thorek saw in Mrs. Hearst a likely patroness for a new International College of Surgeons which he was to help an old Manhattan friend, Dr. Harold Lyons Hunt, get on its feet in the face of denunciation by the American Medical Association's mouthpiece, Dr. Morris Fishbein...
Emulating Uncle Tom's Cabin's Eliza, a fox fleeing from hounds of the Genesee Valley Hunt near Geneseo, N. Y. last week darted across the thin ice of the Genesee River to safety. Whereas Eliza merely left the bloodhounds baying on the brim, Geneseo's fox lured its pursuers out on the ice, which broke under them, drowning ten of the Hunt's hounds, including Wonder and Bouncer, the two best...
...private syndicate operations. Management of the trust was in the hands of one man-President McConnell-who got handsomely paid if he made money, got nothing if he lost. In Manhattan he lives at the Park Lane Hotel, but he prefers his farm in Virginia, where he likes to hunt the fox. Last June he went to the Republican convention in Cleveland as a Virginia delegate. Even if taxes had not looked so grim, President McConnell might have considered abandoning Mayflower. The profit motive has lost its appeal for him. "Just grew out of it," he says...
...winsome appeal. Although more natural and healthy than la Temple, she is ill served by her studio. The great Duse herself would fail to delight if continually coddled by an old sea captain like Guy Kibbee. A summer resort is the scene of mild melodrame concerning a pirate treasure hunt and two gangsters up from the city. Kibbee moves pleasantly in and out of jail and spends every fifth minute kissing little Jason...
...some early Fall sport, so October found me leaving my native Storvik for Lappland, about 50 mil distant (about 300 English miles.) After two days train ride across to Happaranda I joined my friend Lapp Linnen in his Lapp Kojja (cabin) where we rested in anticipation of a Reindeer hunt the following day. Early dawn found us on the trail of a herd, prepared for six to seven hours journey...