Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Root of Evil. Sheriff Meeks had been, as he says, "bird-doggin'" for evidence to back up his charge of murder against Holland. As this week began he was still trying to uncover two important pieces of evidence: the murder gun and shoes that will match the plaster casts. "This scientific investigatin' ain't my dish of tea," he says, "but I got one big advantage. These people around here will talk to me." The sheriff is not as confident about the immediate future of Kanab...
...most forms of animal life are architects rather than painters and sculptors, there are some creatures that indulge in purely decorative art: the bower birds of Australia. In addition to nests these happy birds build bowers of twigs and sticks, some exquisitely decorated with fern fronds, mosses and berries; the bower's sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark...
...brief two-and-a-half-hour ceremony following a slight tiff over the direction the bird should face, CRIMSON editors and Lampoon members resolved that the Ibis should face toward 14 Plympton St., rather than toward...
John H. Limpert '55, president of the Lampoon, said last night that vandals keep turning the bird toward Mt. Auburn St. But he plans to keep men vigilant to see that whenever possible the bird faces the CRIMSON offices. "We don't know just where we'd have been without the CRIMSON," Limpert said...
Speaking for the CRIMSON, Arthur J. Langguth '55 lauded the bravery of David Royce '56, who mounted the building to replace the bird. "He won a signal victory for humanity," Langguth said. "Mr. Royce, in short, was a here...