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...human actors and audience; the bull would be even more enraged by a pure white one. Even among animals which can distinguish color, notably fish and birds, brilliant markings do not influence the female's choice of a mate. They serve primarily to intimidate other males. The barnyard turkey's puffing and strutting are intended to advertise his dominance, maintain his social position, defend his territory. The female turkey responds to bluff, not beauty...
...through the war in a nighttime blaze of neon lights, the brownout that went on last week was a shock. In Chicago, the usually bustling Loop was deserted; there were no long queues at theaters. In Detroit, late shopping housewives complained that they could not find stores. In Denver, barnyard lanterns blossomed on store fronts...
...might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged in whittling their way through a deal. A third favorite in the show: Farmers Nooning, a sunny, almost odorous scene of farmhands sprawled at rest in a hayfield; the central figure is a huge, blissful Negro, sound asleep, with a small boy tickling...
They were already making attempts to reclaim their soil. On dry isolated spots farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...
...four little Aimee could name all the Books of the Bible. When other children were playing with dolls and hoops, she was teaching her dog Jip to pray, and preaching to the animals in her father's barnyard. Her faith began to waver as she grew older, and she was almost lost in agnosticism when in 1908 she attended a prayer meeting conducted by a handsome young Pentecostalist preacher named Robert Semple. She married him a few months later. Together they traveled to India and to China, Robert preaching and Aimee playing the piano. In Hong Kong, Robert Semple...