Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of the fiesta this week, hundreds of youths gathered at the edge of town near the railroad station. Men climbed upon six big cages, reached down and opened them. Out walked six bulls, blinking in the sunlight. They were strong, lithe, handsome, each branded with the mark of Don Ernesto Blanco. They looked around, uncertain what to do, until from the crowd of youths came a yell: "Hah! Hah! . . . Toro!" The bulls lowered their heads, charged the crowd. The crowd took to its heels, the bulls stampeding in pursuit...
...friend, John Y. Whitted, pointed to the mustard jar and said: "There is a condiment that is made in Durham, England. It bears the sign of a Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward the east. After Founder Green died and Bull Durham tobacco was made by his more aggressive partner William T. Blackwell, the trade-mark bull became...
...time are repeated today. Jesus Christ is coming. But "men today are deifying man and humanizing God. Modernism is the religion of Cain." among the members of the Fundamentals Association are Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins (TIME. April 25), Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, famed Seattle pastor, Board Chairman Henry Parsons Crowell of Quaker Oats Co. They were not present in Columbus last week, but the following were : Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the late Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst. Said she-"The world crisis is pointing to nearness of His coming because it fulfills closely...
Other provers of the fabulous: Rev Mark L. Voyles of Little Rock, Ark. who can give the chapter and verse number of any scriptural quotation read to him and recite the preceding and succeeding verses; W. W. Pitman of Wharton, Tex. who disarmed a man by shooting a bullet into one of the chambers of his gun; Edward W. Pulick of College Point, N. Y. who was struck by lightning, left uninjured save for singed hair, a burnt straw hat; Robert F. Lancaster of South Whitley, Ind. whose family of 58 has not had a death in 83 years...
...Hermann, Mo. on the Missouri river a weather-beaten skiff pulled alongside the shiny government towboat Mark Twain aboard which Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was inspecting inland waterways. Aboard the skiff was its owner, William ("Steamboat Bill") Hechmann, old-time river pilot. Observing an enormous fish lashing about at the end of a line astern the skiff, the Secretary shouted...