Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gates fur-hatted sentries with long Russian rifles turned all the men from 15 to 50 aside, ordered them to go to a distant field where they would be given food for their families. At the field hidden machine guns leaped, sparked and rattled. Three thousand men milled like sheep, were shot down in their tracks. Terrified Moslem women, hearing the gunfire, rushed from the city gates, hysterically committed suicide by the bleeding bodies of their husbands and brothers...
...Norman to play tennis," twinkled the Commissioner-General. "But he has been responsible for himself for some time. I am really a businessman, you know." Thus modestly Big Brother Brookes alluded to the fact that he is profitably interested in Australian pulp and paper milling, makes a business of sheep raising in Queensland...
Strathspeys and Reels. Pipers could choose their piece from a list including: The Sheep Wife, Take Your Gun to the Hills, Over the Isles to America, The Rejected Lover. Winner: Piper Hector McDonald of Montreal...
Last and greatest event will be the National Rifle Team Match. To win this each branch of U. S. armed forces strives doggedly. Sights are smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held...
...Authors. Lloyd Lewis, 38, is responsible for Part I of the book. Graduated by Swarthmore in 1913, he went to a Colorado sheep ranch, then to Balaban & Katz, Chicago movie-operators. Lately returned from Europe, author of Myths After Lincoln, his next book will concern General Thomas West Sherman...