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...Moscow last week Mr. & Mrs. Davies said they were preparing to sail by ocean liner shortly to Manhattan, then sail back across the Atlantic in their enormous oil-burning yacht Sea Cloud, which can most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts...
...Westminster not only in number of entries (4.352 to 3,144) but also in having on display ten Basenjis-little red dogs from the Belgian Congo which wash their faces with their paws, arch their backs when angry, chase lions and emit no sound but "groo," having lost their bark in centuries of silent jungle tracking. The two shows were alike, however, in having on their entry lists more cocker spaniels than any other breed...
About half an hour later Farmer Baker's dog began to bark furiously. Looking out, Baker saw an automobile coming slowly down the road from town, thought it might be the battery messenger. Suddenly he heard a shot. He discussed it with his wife for three or four minutes, then started for Denhardt's car. Half way across his yard, he heard a second shot, much less loud than the first. Continuing, he found General Denhardt standing beside his car. The General asked for a flashlight, explaining that Mrs. Taylor had gone back up the road toward...
...first-rate grudge when he quit the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey because the New Deal failed to spend enough on conserving his beloved wild life, has pounded tirelessly at the New Deal spending on other projects. He has shown Harry Hopkins making the electorate sit up and bark for WPA grants, Franklin Roosevelt as a Roman emperor tossing a puny taxpayer to a gladiator labeled Eleven Billion Dollar Deficit...
...attach themselves to a root at which they suck for 17 years. When the proper time arrives, they come out at dusk, climb a tree. In order to get out of the old shell in which it passed its infancy, the insect takes a firm toehold on the bark, arches its back. The shell splits and the cicada slowly works out of it. At this stage the insect is whitish, has red eyes. The frail, crumpled wings spread out and grow strong with incredible rapidity. By morning the cicadas have grown dark, are ready to fly. For four or five...