Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite pass unless its really pretty funny and somehow I did not feel that this was really pretty funny. Perhaps I haven't got that gay, carefree, New Yorker attitude of which Happy Bob has so long been the standard bearer, or perhaps Comforting Thoughts on the Bison don't apply to me, at any rate there were large portions of the book over which I was seen to nod just a touch...
...bronze, reasoned Sculptor Herbert Haseltine, is to model only from a champion. Furthermore, the owners of such prize animals are usually only too glad to pay for it. For 13 years Haseltine has been freezing champions into stone and bronze as accurately as a Stone Age man graphing a bison on his cave wall. Last week the results, tilling two rooms in Manhattan's swank Knoedler Galleries, were packed up and shipped to Chicago's Field Museum at Marshall Field's expense to go on permanent exhibition...
...grizzlies this year, so you are bound to see plenty. The park service runs tourist camps, but you can safely pitch your tent anywhere. (For ferocious bears, go to Katamai National Monument, Alaska, rivaled as a game range only by Belgian Congo's gorilla preserve.) There are more bison (1,000) and elk (10,000) in the park than the mountainous area could support in the winter if hunters did not kill the elk and rangers cull out the bison. There will be Indians as well as geysers, about which government guides lecture at intervals all day long...
...towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards...
Most of the renovations have centered about the third floor and it is here that the new acquisitions have been located. Among the new cases, the display of specimens brought back by the Universities Alaskan expedition, which shows antlers and skulls of prehistoric bison in a remarkable state of preservation, has a prominent place. Included the same case are specially prepared exhibits of insectivora...