Word: huntsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high and rocky that they could never be farmed. They are not, however, wholly unproductive. As private parks they are heavily taxed, and when the hunting season is on thousands of sportsmen drop thousands of pounds into the coffers of thrifty Scottish tradesmen. To shoot Scottish deer (and grouse) huntsmen spend some $3,500,000 annually in Scotland...
...Scrymgeour, of the days of William Wallace, sometimes referred to him as Alexander Skirmisher, the forms scrimmage and skirmish illustrating the R-metathesis common in English and other Germanic languages. That Mr. Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established surnames must have a head rather less than hard...
...official biography appeared last week was it generally known that Hermann as a little boy always encouraged his dog to bite non-Aryans. As for Tenderness, the official version records of Huntsman Göring (a great deer hunter): "He cares for a young deer found by his huntsmen with as much tenderness as he bestows on his pet lion...
...gigantic deer hunt. Hired hunters were to kill some 1,000 deer in the quarantined area. At this point, the Florida Deer Protective Association promptly protested, pointed out that the State could not control the hunt because no provision had been made for fencing in the quarantined area. The huntsmen also pointed out that such wholesale hunting would be unsportsmanlike. The Association got a restraining order against the State, which last week decided to postpone the hunt indefinitely...
...necessary for anthropologists to know more about the neglected, obscure little animals whose places in evolution were uncertain and whose capture would have scientific rather than sporting importance. To help him collect them, he again broke the rules by selecting men who were not the usual great athletes and huntsmen, but barflies whose long hours in smoky night clubs, reasoned Zoologist Sanderson, had endowed them with the endurance required for life on the Dark Continent...