Word: shepherd
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...Named for the Greek shepherd god Pan, whose hoofs, horns, tail and goat beard panicked his mother Penelope when he was born...
...play with. When they returned next season, there were two sheep-a modest increase indeed, Bell thought, considering that young pigs were usually produced by the dozen, kittens and puppies by the half dozen. If sheep were only one-sixth as prolific as pigs, the poverty of his shepherd neighbors, who grazed their flocks among Nova Scotia's bleak hills, would be greatly relieved...
...Around 1,000,000: Stevenson's Treasure Island; Du Maurier's Trilby; E. N. Westcott's David Harum; John Fox Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come; Florence Barclay's The Rosary; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Pollyanna; The Calling of Dan Matthews; E. M. Hull's The Sheik; America's Part in the World War, by R. J. Beamish and F. A. March, which was published...
Grenade. Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlett Upham, 33-year-old Rugby player and shepherd, destroyed three German posts at Malemi. Later he took a corporal reconnoitering 600 yards into enemy territory; together they killed two Germans, led out an isolated company that had been cut off. He was wounded in the shoulder and foot, and next day advanced alone in another attack. Two Germans fired at him. One arm was useless, so he propped his rifle in a tree, picked off the two Germans who had shot...
...Shepherd of the Hills (Paramount) is homespun Harry Carey, who returns to his Ozark mountain home after a long prison term and proceeds to restore the feuding hillbillies to their once kindly ways. Pictorially superb, the Technicolored film suffers from its endless moralizing and Cloud-Cuckoo language. Shown at Branson, Mo., in the heart of the Ozarks, it so stirred one native that he picketed the local cinema with a placard: UNFAIR TO LOCAL CHARACTERS...