Word: huntsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial South was excited fortnight ago by rumors concerning the big investment house of Caldwell & Co. (pronounced Cald-well), at whose head is Rogers Clark Caldwell, potent & popular banker, promoter, huntsman. Fears were partly alleviated by the announcement that a committee of the Nashville Clearing House had taken over the firm's affairs (TIME,, Nov. 17). But last week it became apparent that the difficulties of Caldwell & Co. were too great for the Clearing House committee. As a result a financial storm swept over Tennessee, the wake of which was felt far & wide...
Other books: The Heart's Journey, The Old Huntsman, Counterattack, Satirical Poems...
...then damages must be paid. One U. S. sportsman who gave $500 for a slight injury warned his friends that his generosity had stimulated other bearded gillies to come too near the guns. When a beater falls, other beaters drag him away; when a grouse falls, the ground huntsman lets a dog out of the blind. Some huntsmen use setters, some pointers, some cocker spaniels. The dogs are trained to retrieve dead birds and catch wounded ones that are scrambling off in the heather...
Western porcupines migrate slowly, deliberately in the spring from their dens in the mountain lava cliffs to the valley farms, returning in the autumn. It is during these travels that they gnaw the butts of pine trees great and small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing 50 per day. Foolish is the huntsman who takes with him a dog. But for himself he need not worry. Legend to the contrary, porcupines cannot shoot or throw their quills. Only those get stuck who try to pinch or pat a porcupine...
...unicorn, early writers said, was unconquerable by ordinary huntsman's methods. The best method was virgin-baiting. A maiden, preferably pretty, necessarily young, was undressed, turned loose in a field. The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit. Docilely the unicorn would approach the maiden, fondle her. Putting his head in her lap he would go to sleep. Then she would summon the huntsmen who would dispatch him. Also, claimed authorities, this was a valuable test 'for virginity. The unicorn, on discovering a hoax, would summarily run the lady through with...