Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...herds of half-wild horses. Once the owners got good prices for these horses, but since the coming of the motor car, horses have not been worth so much. Farmers now make good money on this horse meat by sending it to Europe . . . Unemployed cowboys hunt the horses, shoot them, and make big money too. In this way the Government angles for the cowboys' and farmers' presidential vote...
...trapshooters bettered his score of 99. Then a Pennsylvania truck farmer hit 96 birds in a row, missed the 97th, shattered the next three to tie Jimmy. Under a 97° sun, Farmer John W. Schenk and young Rasmussen met in a 25-target shoot-off, with Jimmy firing from 19 yards, his opponent from 20. The crowd was rooting for Jimmy. Both Jimmy and Farmer Schenk missed their sixth birds. Then Jimmy muffed his 23rd, almost wept when he realized that it had cost him the first prize of about $3,500 (second prize: about $2,000). Said...
After that came elephant-hunting for the films, and one job for the camera that not even the author can understate. The stunt: to shoot a lion as he leaped at the hunter from ten yards or less...
...dream was the fact that few of Unilever's products had shucked their plain-paper wrappings of World War II. Almost always, a designer has to compromise his ideas with the maker's notions of indispensable, brand-identifying trimmings. For Unilever, French-born Raymond Loewy could shoot the works. His terms, as usual, were cost (for the man-hours and materials of his 200-man office, $100,000-a-month payroll) plus an unrevealed annual retainer. On past jobs, the retainer has run from...
Euphoria & Rebuffs. At Rugby Brooke was noted for his prehensile toes, with which he could shoot marbles; at Cambridge he tried to act, but was poor at it; and he paid for his remarkable euphoria in fits of nervous depression. He was not always irresistible. Amy Lowell stood up and shouted "Speak up, speak up" at one of his readings; Ford Madox Ford elegantly rebuffed...