Word: huntsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brewer brewing a brew, a baker baking a cake, a woman having a gown made, a huntsman buying a horn-all these and many another involved in an operation where it is the result that counts, perform one act in common. They sip the brew, taste the batter, try on the gown, wind the horn. So, thought Chicago's school superintendent, William McAndrew, should those supporting public education be permitted to ladle out a sample of the educational pot and try it to see if the contents have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade...
Many hunting trips have been led into the field by Dr. Smith in all quarters of the globe. As a proof of his prowess as a huntsman, several of the specimens which he procured in Africa are now in the Agassiz Museum of the University. Still others are the property of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. The safety of a hunting trip under Dr. Smith is assured by the fact that he is a physician with full knowledge of how to ward off or cure the numerous diseases prevalent in the tropics...
Acteon, the huntsman, breaks from a coppice with two wolfish dogs, one leaping from his thigh, one flying from under his lifted knee...
...story. Zamiel, the wild huntsman, a blackhearted, fire-eating demon, has in his power Kaspar, a forester in the service of Prince Ottokar of Bohemia. Kaspar is doomed to forfeit his soul to the wizard unless he can find another victim. As a candidate he picks the noble young hero, Max, who loves Agatha, daughter of the Prince's chief ranger, one Kuno. In the shooting contest which is to 'decide who is to be Kuno's successor, Kaspar, through Zamiel's magic, makes Max miss the target. Max despairs (very tunefully...
...contains a vigorous, damaging deunuciation of the so-called "classic" ages, with one of which, the reign of Louis XIV, the play itself is concerned. "Epochs of prey", M. Rolland describes them, "a pack of hounds with blind instincts, always straining to escape from the huntsman's leash." The era of Augustus, the era of Leo X, the era of Louis XIV,--all built on the uncertain grounds of repression, murder and cruelty; all followed by periods of terrible degeneration, of savage misuse of liberty...