Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avowed purpose of the Good-Will Union, founded twelve years ago by Rev. Edward Lawrence Hunt, a onetime Presbyterian minister and "100% American," is ''To form a more perfect union." Widow of a Manhattan realtor, Mrs. Tubman met Widower Hunt four years ago, now collaborates with him in patrioteering. Boast they: "There never is an occasion we don't celebrate...
...kind. These attributes make U. S. citizens unversed in Nature proud to acknowledge the bald eagle as their national bird and emblem. Shocking to patriots are the facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were appointed in 1776 to design a national seal, they chose the double eagle of the Holy...
...quantity, Author James Boyd has always given his readers their money's worth. Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt were all lengthy historical romances in which many a reader took great stock; some captious critics found the stock somewhat watered, but Author Boyd has established his reputation as a popularizer of U. S. legend. No mere praiser of times past, and not willing to go on forever writing melodramas of an earlier day, in Roll River he has come to grips with...
...distinctly minor but nevertheless appropriate innovation is the University's decision to change the name of Robinson Hall Annex to Hunt Hall. For years the old Fogg Museum bore the former top-heavy title, and it is quite fitting that the quarters of the School of City Planning should honor the man whose name is one of the watchwords of American architecture...
...their importance to steeplechase enthusiasts, as dissimilar as possible. The Grand National, over dreary flats near Liverpool, is run for a purse of approximately ?5,000. It settles a huge sweepstake and costs most of the 300,000 who watch it a shilling for the privilege. The Maryland Hunt Cup race, started in 1894 when two rival fox hunts decided to see which had the best horses, is for a silver cup which Captain Kettle would have retired last week if he had been a step faster. The race is ridden by amateurs, watched for nothing...