Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oldtime woodsmen of the Tupper Lake district in the Adirondacks turned out in force last week to hunt down a pack of seven Canadian wolves which Thomas Monette of Belmont saw running along the bank of Trout River. Thomas Monette explained he did not shoot at the big, hungry marauders because he did not know whether the law protected them. (It does...
...session with fulsome speeches, self-congratulations, cheers, horseplay. Speaker Longworth, in a farewell speech-from-the-throne, recognized that it might be his last term as presiding officer. The Marine Band Orchestra was led by Representative La Guardia of New York. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida sang "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag" as she used to sing it in War canteens. The Speaker played on the piano while Virginia's Woodrum sang "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny." It was all very merry, the most noisy and exciting closing in years...
...jobholders, petty politicians and hangers-on?the Thompson Gang. Waiters brought them heaping trays of food & drink. Free cigars were chewed and waved. Backs were violently slapped, greetings bellowed. The sour grey air vibrated with the full blare of a brass band. In the centre of the boisterous human pack stood beefy, bloodshot Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, He was in his shirtsleeves. His flushed face was damp. His eyes bulged with excitement. His voice was hoarse from gleeful roaring...
...thoroughbred racing camel can run 150 mi. a day, carry a pack load three days without water. The best racers are Mehara dromedaries. They are mostly bred by that old tribe whose men haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right...
...staff of managers and volunteers made the frigid work-out possible, by speeding up the action of the weather in freeing the Newell dock of a large ice pack. A small boat, rocked on the ice, broke through, and the pack was shoved and floated away...