Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utah Deer. Hunters and fishermen will do well to trek to Utah this autumn. For them, David H. Madsen, State Fish and Game Commissioner, has announced a para dise: "More deer than any white man ever saw in the State . . . 30, 000 to 40,000 pheasants in Salt Lake and Utah counties this fall... the largest fish producing plant in the United States." Utah has public shooting grounds of 12,000 acres with accommodations for 1,000 sportsmen...
Then came Herr Reinhardt's annual surprise, incorporated in a good old reliable Shakesperean comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Accustomed theatregoers must have gasped when they saw the stage. He had audaciously scrapped the usual Greek setting. Costumed in rococo gowns of an early Italian period, the actors scampered over a circular, sloping stage, before a seemingly infinite column of stairs. Draperies hung in a background clustered with stars were melted by green and orange lights into an elfin heaven. Puck, anointing the wrong lovers with his impish love-dew, flew on and off from so many different levels...
Captain Arthur V. Rogers, British destroyer of 32 German planes, jumped. He felt the canvas mechanism of his parachute start functioning.* He hit the ground, was picked up dead. Captain Rogers was testing the Angel of Los Angeles. He circled, went into a nose dive, saw the ground coming up to meet...
...Broun is contracted to the World until 1931 for his exclusive services in newspaper writing. Most brilliant writer in the U. S. field of personal journalism he is defiant for its prerogative. Dispa sionate observers saw no compromise...
...Stroudsburg, Pa., one William Lacey, road laborer, saw the big concrete-mixer at his job stop functioning. Peering in over the muddy mixture, he saw that a stone had lodged in the machinery. Practical; he crawled inside to remove the stone. Alert, a fellow-laborer noticed the machine was idle. Dutiful, he started it working. After three minutes, Laborer Lacey, his mouth and nose bubbling cement, his clothes torn completely off, his body cut and bruised, made his shrieks heard, was rescued...