Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birds, from Australian parakeets to American eagle. Practically all of the beasts & birds were acquired from Benson Animal Farms at Nashua, N. H. Neighbor W. B. McClellan, who resides but 100 ft. from the menagerie, heads the protesting property-owners. He caught one of the mon keys in his backyard recently. A woman visitor to the neighborhood found a chimpanzee occupying her parked automobile. Neighbors said the cockatoos were the noisiest. They could not discern which animals smelled worst...
...looks about ten years older, is small, wiry, baldish. Contrary to strangely persistent legends (besides one that he is a woman) he is neither crippled nor blind, nor has he a harelip. His professional name dates back to his childhood on a Maryland plantation. A bird house in the backyard was occupied by a colony of martins, identified by his mother in her story telling as John, Joan, Robin, Alice (et al.) Martin...
Animal-like behavior is a natural, evanescent phase of human development, Hrdlicka evidence already filed indicates. A certain boy, now an honor student in an Eastern college, as a child had no playmates until he found a lonesome pig in his backyard on a Western farm. Boy and pig played together, wallowed together, grunted to each other understandingly...
...disinterestedness. . . ." The University of Rochester Campus: ". . . Rochester men do not agree with the Yale Daily News. . . . College men should not quit because the task appears difficult." The Penn State Collegian: ". . . Before the undergraduate gets too critical, he should attempt to clear up a bit in his own backyard. Some of the methods used to get votes by fraternity cliques in many colleges would put the average politician to shame." The Daily Princetonian: ". . . Most undergraduates here recognize that politics need cleaning up, and a reasonable number have the desire to help in person...
...this romantic picture of the North American savage we have to thank a boy who entered Yale at the age of fourteen in the year 1803. James Fennimore Cooper is particularly remembered as the man who conceived "Leatherstocking Tales". Little boys run wildly whooping about the backyard waving wooden tomahawks and loudly protesting to an imperious voice from the kitchen window, "But mama, we're only burning him at the stake like Indians," because of Mr. Cooper. He did much else besides; wrote several excellent sea stories, a naval history of the United States, and the "Wept of Wish...