Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allow me to recall only two of the early adventures of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, D.S.O., featured in your July 2 issue as the world's leading bird-lice catcher...
Hardened Saliva. Georgie found plenty of compensations, notably when he could go on jungle safari with the natives to gather birds' nests. In the land where the orchids grow wild, the men have grown tame, but collecting birds' nests still requires skill and daring. Slithering over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does...
President Truman circled the exhibit, inspected five bird paintings, drew up short before a placid brown & white bull. He was never aware, said Harry Truman pleasantly, that Audubon ever painted such a beast...
...Psittacosis, so called because the disease was first detected in parrots. Now regarded as a form of ornithosis (bird disease), to which many birds are subject...
...solo presentations are also scheduled. A Spanish dance will be interpreted by Mrs. Elizabeth Pope Compton in authentic original costume. A progression of Russian dances from the 17th century on will be staged by Miss Elena Sergeyeva and Chris and David Bird...