Word: hut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orango, youthful village butcher, just turned cowpuncher, enters an adobe hut in Chihuahua, Mexico, rendezvous of the smart sporting fraternity. He sits down to a quiet game. Presently an Army officer questions his play. Orango smiles. The officer cries "cheat," and Orango .shoots Mm dead across the table. Orango dashes out, jumps on a horse, and rides into the night-covered mountains-no longer Orango, but Francisco Villa, bandit, known to his friends as La Cucaracha, "the cockroach...
July 16, 1923. Seven greasers take possession of a cross-roads hut in the outskirts of Parras. After three days of waiting they see an automobile coming down from the big ranch in the hills. As the car slows up at the cross-roads they open fire from seven rifles. Of 40 bullets which catch the car, 16 sink into the body of one man. Pancho Villa has been killed by his enemies. He had no chance to draw his own pistols...
...seven greasers, after hastily assassinating the owner of the hut (dead men don't talk) scamper into a nearby gully, mount their horses...
...Thoreau's little hut by Walden Pond he treasured a single ornament- a fine specimen of granite, cut and polished by himself. To enjoy its delicate markings, Thoreau had to dust the stone every day. At length he decided that the time spent in polishing the little block was out of all proportion to its value; it was needlessly cluttering his life. So one day pitched it into the middle of the pond...
...pictured ocean, piers, real sand, snappy shops, etc. all different with many colored awnings, wheel chairs, theatre with performances twice daily. "The Hut" in the basement with its cafeteria, and war mementos, fortune tellers, salt water taffy, and countless other attractions will give the people of New England many of the experiences of a trip to Atlantic City, with none of the inconveniences of traveling...