Word: huntting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country seat of Lord Kylsant, also a beefy John Bull, who went to jail for his irregularities as chairman of the Royal Mail (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et ante). There today Fat Chaps is respected as Mr. Francis M. Rickett, velvet-capped Master of Foxhounds of the swank Craven Hunt in Berkshire. The local lords and squires who hunt with him know nothing about oil, and little about Mr. Rickett. In Irak sheiks know him as one of Britain's slickest oil promoters. While "Lawrence of Arabia" was worrying about the Arabs' rights, Mr. Rickett sewed...
...HUNT...
...friendly, laconic character. Unable to reach Nome before dark, the Lindberghs landed in a far lagoon on Seward Peninsula, anchored the plane, and slept. In the middle of the night they were awakened by guttural voices, discovered two boatloads of Eskimos beside the plane. "Hello," said the Eskimos, "we-hunt-duck." Taken aback, not knowing what manner of men his visitors were, Charles Lindbergh replied, "That's nice." Conversation lagged. To keep it going, he explained that he and his wife were just stopping for the night. The Eskimos did not understand. Still trying to make conversation, he asked...
Finally AAA approved a resolution providing $150,000 for a Federal Trade Commission investigation of processors' profits -a scandal hunt which might do much to discourage suits to prevent the collection of processing taxes...
Indeed in one case incest is deliberately practiced because it is thought to confer singular powers on the man who commits it. On the Nkomati River men, before departing to hunt hippopotamus, bed with their daughters, after which they are deemed to be murderers and wizards, and the hippopotamus will be no match for them...