Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture tale, Madeline, putting his twelve little Parisian schoolgirls into animation that catches not only the image but also the spirit of the original. Fresh from the drawing board came The Twelve Days of Christmas, an imaginatively designed illustration of the old song; Alouette, a gentle fable about a bird that blossoms only uncaged, and Freezeyum, the story of an ice-cream salesman with a weakness for changing the tune played by the bells on his truck...
...overcome bird predation, Dr. Urquhart and his assistants tagged 20,000 Monarchs in 1956. So far, 125 have been found. Some butterflies tagged in Ontario got all the way to Texas and the Gulf Coast. Dr. Urquhart points out that several generations of Monarchs live and die each summer in northern regions, feeding principally on milkweed. Then the generation that is adult when cold weather approaches flies south to spend the winter. Since Monarchs do not breed in the south, the same butterflies move north again in spring...
Critic Into Wife. The fact is that Fanny did not rate Henry very highly as a poet. "The Prof has collected all his vagrant poems into a neat little volume christened mournfully Voices of the Night. He does not look like a nightbird and is more of a mocking-bird than a nightingale . . ." And when he published his next volume: "The Professor has a creamy new volume of verses out . . . the cream of thought being somewhat thinner than that of the binding." But when, in 1843, Fanny finally said yes. she loyally ended her role as one of Henry...
This had a sobering effect for a few years, but in 1951 the CRIMSON once more pirated the sacred Ibis, and started a minor war which has continued on down to the present. The bird had fallen down of its own accord during a storm and had been turned in at the University Lost and Found, where a CRIMSON editor claimed it under false pretenses...
...some reason the Lampoon thought David L. Ratner '52, the rather staid editorial chairman, had stolen its bird, so they kidnapped him and took him to an abandoned house in Ipswich. They took his clothes from him for a night, then gave them back and lashed him to a pot-bellied stove for a group picture. Shortly thereafter, Ratner escaped, and the 'Poon soon recaptured its bird...