Word: huntting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwin F. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee: the U. S. Checkers championship; at Jamestown, N. Y. The tournament, in which 24 district champions entered, was played in rounds of four games each. Spectators were not permitted to speak. The rattle of notes being passed disturbed Checkerist Hunt. For the playoff, he and Nathaniel Rubin of Los Angeles retired to an upstairs bedroom in the Jamestown Hotel, played a round which lasted three days, contained eleven draws, one victory for Hunt...
...models for his scenery. He says he is in the business only for the money. As soon as he can, he is going to Hollywood to make a fortune (he gets a maximum of $5,000 per stage show), retire, buy a boat, sail to the Cocos Islands to hunt treasure...
...such, Commissioner O'Ryan personally supervised the ensuing robber hunt. Interborough bridges were scrupulously policed, suspicious-looking autoists halted and frisked for guns or loot. Up from Floyd Bennett Field soared two police planes to scout up the Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready...
Welcome to many a U. S. duckhunter was the fact that this year's season will be longer than last. Less welcome was the fact that, because of a general decrease of waterfowl, actual shooting days will be fewer. In each State, hunting will be permitted on days recommended by the State's own game department. Thus, California will hunt Saturdays and Sundays for eleven weeks (22 days), New Mexicans for 14 weeks (28 days). All other States elected the maximum 30-day season, but only Nebraska and West Virginia will observe continuous seasons. In 30 States...
...John Hunt Morgan, Alabama-born (1825), was a member of an aristocratic Kentucky family. At 21 he first saw action in the Mexican War, liked it so much that when he went home he founded the Lexington Rifles, which attracted all the young bloods in town. When the Civil War broke, Morgan and his "terrible men" were ready. Morgan was a regular officer, and took orders (when he felt like it) from his superiors, but the North persisted in regarding him as an irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed...