Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird Charmer. Though the suicide was hushed up that afternoon to allow the New York Stock Exchange to close, the market opened the following Monday to a flood of "sell" orders on Kreuger stocks and bonds, to which hardheaded U.S. financiers and softheaded speculators alike had subscribed some $250 million. Prices plummeted; one issue of Kreuger stock opened at 5, off 37½ points from the previous close. In little over a month after his death, it was clear that Kreuger had been the world's greatest swindler, having "misappropriated" some $1,168,000,000 in nine years...
...Welcome to the Harvard Ornithological Club," said the speaker. "I'm the president. "I'll introduce the fellows here so that the new people will know who they are." He paused, then called off or elicited names from the circle of twenty-odd birders (don't call them "bird-watchers") sitting around tables. "We haven't got too much business. Could we have the report on Drumlin Farm...
...Before we go any further," said the president, "I want to mention the Christmas Count. For the new fellows, the Christmas Count is a bird census taken all over the nation during Christmas week. All the H.O.C. members should try to go on one. We want to see who can get the most species--it's sort of a contest...
...seemed that some 30,000 gulls nested on Kent Island, an island in the Bay of Fundy. There also was a bird called the Leach's Petrel, which nested in burrows. "Petrels have a smell," said Jim. "You get down on your knees and smell the entrance to a burrow ... well, it's distinctive. You reach your arm in and if you're lucky you'll find a bird or an egg or both.... We would listen for the call at night. The call is in two parts--well, I'd know it if I heard it again...
...show this week in Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery. Among them are some surprisingly delightful forms, e.g., a small dancing figure whose facial features show up on the sole of its upraised foot, a 6-ft. 3-in. Palm Tree topped with a suitable bird with Miró hieroglyphics scrawled on the richly glazed bark, some bug-eyed figurines that look as if they had just swallowed the pits with the cherries. Most successful are those that, like the 20-in. bull's head, derive their texture and form from the fantastic rock shapes abounding in Catalonia...