Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...central Washington, a lawyer out for his first hunt with a brand-new Winchester went skulking up a ridge looking for deer. When he found one, instead of aiming and shooting, he got a classic case of buck fever. Dropping his gun, the lawyer ran after the deer, shouting, "Hey, stop! Stop...
Following the Grand New Party's Grand New March last Tuesday was the "Elephant Hunt." By way of introduction, the toastmaster explained the difficulties of finding a new symbol to replace the twenty-year-old cartoonists' version of an elephant looking back on its laurels of yesterday. Three women and a man, dressed like African hunters, and equipped with ping-pong ball guns, then stalked onto the stage to the beat of jungle drums. The man grappled with the microphone which barely reached his chin and informed the party workers that they were starting on an elephant hunt, but that...
...elephant hunt," he started, rhythmically slapping his knees to simulate the sound of stamping through the jungle. "Let's go on an elephant hunt," chanted the audience as it followed suit. "We have to go through some tall grass," the hunter announced, waving his arms as if to move the grass out of the way. "We have to go through some tall grass," repeated the audience, and this reporter was soundly flailed in the process. There were more obstacles such as a small river, a big river, some trees, and the elephant's cave which were all surmounted with appropriate...
...receive a prize. Two men and a woman stepped up to the platform; the first man received a small stuffed elephant, the second a larger stuffed elephant. The woman, after affirming her faith in the GNP, received a stuffed elephant which took four people to carry. The elephant hunt was over...
...this week began a city-wide drive to eliminate so-called "obscene and pornographic" literature from local newsstands. Two twenty-five cent reprints have been banned by the police in the last four days, and officers searched the book racks of one store in the Square yesterday in a hunt for copies of the two blacklisted volumes...