Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. White has been misrepresenting conditions in Alaska for some time. . . . Did not the Saturday Evening Post, a few weeks after publishing Mr. White's article on bears, have to retract and apologize to its readers for misstatements on Mr. White's part?
* Political punsters and cartoonists opened their birdbooks to amplify their knowledge of the bird (Philohela Minor) whose name Commissioner Woodcock bears. An upland species of snipe, highly prized by sportsmen and epicures, the woodcock has a long, long bill and practically no tail at all. Its plumage is heavily mottled...
Editor Harry McGuire, writing in the current issue of Outdoor Life, places most of the blame for the new law on sheepmen, charges them with attempting "to get free grazing land." He concludes: "The more I see sheepmen, the better I like bears."
The fact that bears migrate from mountains to river valleys each year for their annual salmon gorge almost insures their extermination if their enemies set systematically about the task. Says Sportsman White: "If I were so inclined, I think I could shoot almost every bear on any given river in...
No humorless, cranky old maid was Emily Dickinson. Hers was feminine intelligence at its keenest, and many a masculine ponderosity drew her inner smile. Said she: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." Unable to discover the Devil, she concluded: "He must be...