Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General" is a play of the times, of the ideas that lurk behind headlines crying problem, red hunt. It deals with the gnosis of lost causes exhumed to terrorize and destroy men who cheated for them "in another time and in another country." Most of all, it is a play about a certain general who never existed and who, I doubt, could ever exist. In "Billy Budd" Robert chapman and Louis Coxe created a personification of good, and no one questioned whether or not he ever walked the face of this earth, because it didn't matter. "Billy Budd...
...dismissed since State's problem of perversion first hit the headlines. It an nounced that 425 employees have been fired since 1947 for "homosexual proclivities." The hunt for perverts, Security Chief Robert McLeod assured the committee, continues "with increased vigor...
Today visitors can hunt down such varied exhibits as the stuffed carcass of "Winchester" (once called Rienzi), General Phil Sheridan's horse; the bones of "Swanky Dan," a prize bull; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, a collection of dresses worn by former First Ladies; a collection of fleas from G.I.s in Korea. Last year, if there had been room, the Smithsonian staff could have displayed 607,354 new acquisitions, including a couple of Japanese eels, an adjustable, double-ended wrench (circa 1856), 18 boxes of bricks from the White House renovation, one astral lamp (complete with glass...
Serving on the panel with Packard were Lee E. Hunt, Dean of Swarthmore College, and Professor Richard M. Arnold, from Cornell. They were assisted by an official of the New York State Education department...
...boar, an old one and cunning, broke cover near the chalk pit and charged straight for the line of trees that hid its edge. After him clattered the whole hunt-King Richard the Lion Heart in the lead. At the rim of the chalk pit the boar pivoted and scuttled off to safety, while the beguiled lead hounds fell yelping into space...