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...head-hunt. As soon as a lucky group is chosen, the rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually...
Gules three stags caboched or, Crest: at the top of a tower argent, an arm and hand vested gules, cuffed argent, holding a tilting spear sable, pointing dexter." To decipher 'one might explain that "gules" means red, "vested" designates wearing, "sable" black, "caboched" showing the full face but nothing of the neck, and "dexter" right...
...Tampa, Fla., Kimoto Toono, Japanese sailor, went ashore from his ship to spear small fish. So as not to lose his gig (spear), he fastened the end of the rope around his body. Then he sighted a 340-lb. jewfish, speared it, was pulled off the dock, out to sea, drowned. Next day searchers found Gigger Toono and his jewfish...
...Miss Bainter: "Why, Kalonika, you weren't pregnant last night." Miss Hopkins: "But I didn't know it last night!" Indicative of the plight of the men was the piteous condition of Kinesias (Ernest Truex). He fidgeted, pranced and pleaded with tantalizing Miss Alden. He drove his spear into the ground, he waved his arms, he bellowed. But until peace was made, the women were adamant. Followed a jubilee, with dancers, music, lights and shouting united in a single impulse calculated by Author Aristophanes to delight oldtime Athens, and by his modern producers to amaze contemporary propagandists...
Hunter Siemel's best dog, Valente, found 64 tigers, was killed by the 65th. Hunter Siemel has killed altogether 107 tigers, three or four each month for the last two years. Of these, 90 died from one bullet in the brain, 17 he impaled with spear or bayonet...