Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claude Pepper, United States Senator" are words that were inscribed in the bark of a tree at Camp Hill, Ala. by Claude Pepper in 1911. He was then ten years old. After nursing his ambition while working as a farm helper and in an Alabama steel mill, stoking furnaces at Alabama University, boning through Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1924 and starting a law practice in Perry, then in Tallahassee, Claude Pepper set out to realize his goal by running for election...
...spoke by means of a number alphabet, one bark for a, two for b, three for c, as far as 16 for p; then backwards, ten for q, nine for r, to one for z. If there was doubt, Kurwenal was asked "Backwards?" or "Forward?" "Yes," he would say with one bark; or "No," with two. Among his intellectual feats...
Sporting (pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels). Westminster's versatile Chairman Harry Peters (who last month insisted in a Metropolitan Museum of Art lecture that sport has influenced art more than religion) had entered, beside his greyhound, a lemon & white pointer named Sensation, which his son had bought "for a bark" (actually $50) from a Rochester, N. Y. farmer. Though best of the pointers, Ch. Windholme Sensation lost in the sporting group to a mere pup, Sportsman Dwight Ellis' gay English setter, Daro of Maridor...
...earnestly that he spent many years in almost incredible explorations-from Pennsylvania's Perkiomen River, under whose ice he was drawn one winter night; up the Hudson's shore, west to the Ohio's falls, through Kentucky meadows (where Daniel Boone taught him how to "bark" squirrels), down a flooded Mississippi into Louisiana bayous; along Florida's keys. Always poor, Audubon let his loyal wife support him, while he followed his lifelong, single purpose: to paint the birds of the U. S. in their natural habitat...
...will watch the guardians themselves?" is the inviting slogan of the magazine. Well, if I am to be the watchdog this time, I will bark and say that the November issue has taken on a bit of the color of the month in which it appears...