Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Below, with a Niagara of passionate Italian adjectives, Signer Dino Grandi, black-shirted Chief of the Italian delegation in London, was metaphorically described as strangling the British sea wolf with his right hand while he choked the French land wolf with his left...
...spreading a net around one end of a fallen hollow tree, hunters in Arkansas last week caught a 98-lb. timber wolf with only two toes on his right hind...
...years this wolf, called Two Toes because of mutilations suffered escaping from traps, had led his hungry pack through the forests of eastern Arkansas. The pack killed hundreds of sheep, goats, cows. Near the scattered bones enraged cattle owners always found the tracks of a huge, two-toed...
...Stanford, Mont., last month, a famed white wolf without a name, who has killed hundreds of sheep and cows in the Little Belt range, was pursued by five hounds and A. V. Cheney of Wolf Butte. Cornered by the dogs, the white wolf escaped because only one of the hounds dared attack him, because A. V. Cheney had no rifle...
...where wolves have largely ceased to be a serious menace to humans, there are few organizations devoted to their slaughter though some western states offer wolf bounties. In France, where wolves still haunt the forests, there are still "wolf lieutenants"-landowners who, in return for protecting large portions of the terrain from wolves by maintaining packs of wolfhounds, are entitled to hunt government forests for wild boar. Among noted wolf lieutenants are two women, the Dowager Duchess d'Uzes and Mme Alice Abram Terras of Lambesc-Salen, who wears a man's uniform...