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All of the past winter, acts were thought up, men and animals bought up, the show licked into shape. Besides a whole battery of rodeo and roughrider acts, McCoy devised an elaborate pageant that would give a new generation a vision of the old West-cowboys & Indians, stagecoaches & covered wagons...
The technique was simple, according to Prosecutor Burns: The exigencies of traveling would cause the circus to abandon a large number of animals they had never owned. Without the animals they no longer had need of chimerical cages in which to keep them, so those were also listed as abandoned...
Favorite baiting spot was the Times Square Automat, which was handy to union headquarters and a good place to attract a crowd. Once the pickets egged on the police by lying down on the sidewalk in droves. Last month they tried marching in a column of 100 at the height...
Many Japanese civilians liquored up heavily before the Victory Parade. "They swaggered offensively, shoved Chinese civilians into the gutters and in some cases tripped them into falling, whereupon there was uproarious laughter from the Japanese," grimly cabled New York Timesman Hallett Abend. Leading the parade came Japanese officers riding in...
In the Great Trek (as the Boers still call it), the hardier of the early Dutch settlers, disgruntled at the cession (1814) of the Cape Colony to the British and smarting under the alien rule, moved out with their families, their herds and their household possessions, betook themselves northward across...