Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week to many a U. S. citizen he was a bum.* To a pack of U. S. newspaper pundits, he was worse than that: they thought they saw in his second Isolationist speech (TIME, Oct. 23) the spoor of a Nazi fox. Dorothy Thompson and Walter Lippmann read dread things between the naïve Lindbergh lines. Heywood Broun thought the speech "one of the most militaristic" ever made by an American. To Columnist Hugh S. Johnson he was "Poor Lindy" who had "stepped from his hero's niche...
Colonel Lindbergh held his peace, and his chums hoped he would continue to. As hue & cry died away, observers noted that a lonely goat had crossed the trail-without diverting the attention of the pundit pack...
...pants and starched white spats, 100-odd socialites gathered last week on the rambling estate of Capitalist Oakleigh Thorne at Millbrook, N. Y. Sniffing the crisp Dutchess County air, they galumphed over the meadows, up & down hill, tripping over cornstalks, leaping heavily over brooks & briars-in pursuit of a pack of beagles who were in pursuit of a wily hare. Local farmers would never go in for such crosscountry foolishness, but if they did, they would call it a rabbit hunt. In sport parlance this mixture of old clothes and cocktail breaths is known as beagling...
...while Britain's tunesmiths tightened up their tom-toms, Britain's soldiers bull-doggishly continued to croon such old sweet favorites as Roses of Picardy, Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and There's A Long, Long Trail, dusted off such hardtack tidbits...
Although Iron-man Jack Haley, the Crusaders' ace half miler and miler, led the Varsity pack through the tape in 29:02. Jaakko Mikkola's operatives captured seven out of the first ten places...