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...little boy waxed-eventually to 6 ft. 3 in. The voice waxed too, and earned for Hugh Dalton the nickname "Booming Bittern." Many a Tory never forgave this product of aristocratic Eton and King's College, Cambridge, for joining the Labor Party after World War I. He was called a traitor to his class. Among Laborites, sarcastic Tory-lasher Dalton won honors, if not complete confidence. During World War II he served first as Minister of Economic Warfare, later as President of the Board of Trade. After the war, Clement Attlee made him Chancellor of the Exchequer, traditionally...
...Chemical Co., a Long Beach, Calif, subsidiary, manufactures only iodine from oil-well bittern (brine waste...
...wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...
...Miss Nancy Vanuxem, pretty debutante daughter of Philadelphia City Councilman James Vanuxem, swathed herself in cheesecloth draperies and stepped up on a model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins...
This week the fountain of Miss Vanuxem and her bittern (known officially as the "Spirit of the Schuylkill") was on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and with it something unique in the history of art exhibitions: every known surviving work by Sculptor William Rush. Preparing for the show for ten months, Curator Henri Marceau raised the list of known surviving Rush items from about 30 to 80, and though it entailed a raid on Independence Hall itself for a statue of Washington, all of them were finally made available for this week's show...