Word: splotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brookfield Dumb-Bell, named for the lemon dumbbell-shaped splotch on his side, was a runt. But he was a champion's son and when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon...
...more a case of bloodling through. For the past five years China has had a compact, mobile, self-styled "Red State"-a vast semi-bandit group of Chinese Communists under able native Red generals, propagandists and administrators who in 1931 had established a Provisional Government in a large splotch of China some 200 miles in diameter, perilously close to the Chinese Government at Nanking (see map). This Red State today can be roughly compared to those of such old-time Asiatic nomad conquerors as Genghis Khan, whose traveling bureaucrats pitched their tents and unraveled their red tape wherever the Great...
...bolted, then sprawled dead. Other "eye witnesses" told of a bland and bold acquiescence in the "execution" by Wrinkle-Face, who quietly walked out into the garden and stood up to a firing squad which shot him down. In either case mortally wounded Wrinkle-Face collapsed in a great splotch of his blood upon the snow, and one of the mustards threw a piece of matting over the corpse which was soon covered by the falling flakes...
...into the Arctic night went Sergeant Morgan and a native crew in a whaleboat, equipped with an outboard motor. Through bad, murky weather, all mist and fog, they put-putted southward across little ponds and up small streams. Few hours later they made out a splotch of red-colored wreckage in the river a quarter-mile ahead near the Eskimo village of Walkpi. They landed, found a little group of natives huddled about a sleeping bag. On the ground, under the sleeping bag, lay the body of Will Rogers, his legs broken, his skull crushed. By his Ingersoll pocket watch...
...Generals, 4,600 Italian officers and soldiers. Two thousand were wounded, 2,000 taken prisoner. General Baratieri was court-martialed, finally acquitted. Premier Crispi resigned. The peace treaty returned a fine slice of Eritrea to Ethiopia, and the whole business cost Italy some $90,000,000 and a dirty splotch on her military escutcheon...