Word: mule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabin that is used, is probably inhabited by the Hoag boys for hunting, as they own the property now and live on a ranch on the southern hillside. I know Mrs. Hoag will be glad to give you very full and authentic information on the old days, when six-mule teams used to wind their way down those cliffs from Monterey, bringing a load of houseguests for a gay weekend...
...stampede of treasure-hunting natives. Authorities believe that the tunnel belonged to the almost-legendary La Estrella mine, worked by the Spanish conquerors. Fabulously rich, it became "lost" in the passing of four centuries. Indians, outraged by the cruel treatment of the Spaniards, are supposed to have ambushed a mule-drawn treasure train, killed the white men and buried them with their gold in the tunnel...
...White Mule ($2.50), a novel by William Carlos Williams about a New York immigrant family on the make...
...Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems was still alive, but their pooh-poohing paled beside a published photograph of Willie Sue Blagden exposing a plump thigh bearing...
...paltry beside his own.* The quarry of Colonel Hugh D. Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong as a mule and as hard to kill as a cat." They are handier and less expensive for ordinary mortals to hunt than most big-game fish; they are more plentiful, and destructive to nicer fish...