Word: auduboned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Across the Pond. The peacock in its prime is shown by Author Bedford with the brilliance of an artist who can paint both a huge panorama and an Audubon closeup. Julius von Felden, feckless son of an ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
Never underestimate the power of bird lovers. Last week the management of Manhattan's 1,472-ft. Empire State Building announced that out of respect for migrating birds and the National Audubon Society, it has doused the building's stationary beacon, and will keep it doused until Nov. 1, when most of the feathered friends are safe in their winter resorts...
...important flyway of migratory birds, says the Audubon Society, passes over Manhattan Island, and the birds have been having increasing trouble with man-made mountains poking their tops into their right of way. Birds generally fly at night, and when the sky is clear, they keep well above New York's highest buildings. But a low ceiling of turbulent clouds often forces them down to levels where they may tangle fatally with glass and brick and steel. Powerful lights on the tops of buildings seem to attract and confuse the birds. Sometimes the sidewalks around the Empire State have...
Since the beacon on the Empire State was extinguished, says the Audubon Society, no birds have crashed. The revolving lights that march around the building's top seem to be no menace to the birds. The light does not touch them long enough to lead them astray...
Arthur C. Twomey has a talkie machine which will show, among other wonders, "strange air plants, mountain tops bathed in mist, rare butterfly orchids and a view from the acropolis at Copan." Massachusetts Audubon Nature Series, New England Mutual Hall, today...