Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explorer William Montgomery Brown, who a year ago told "Boston rocking-chair voyagers" of jungaleering in the Amazon hinterland among "a human race so low that other natives call them animal folks, of finding caterpillars tough eating," (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), told another one in his travel book published last week in London...
...centre of this solemn group was a pinkish-brown princess, recently born to their Imperial Majesties of Japan (TIME, Sept. 19). Her only sister, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya, 21 months, steadied and restrained by a nurse's hand, gazed wonderingly on as the newest Imperial baby, yelping, was put into a ceremonial bath...
Monkeys. When an orchestra, attempting to tabulate animalian reactions to music, played in the monkey gallery at the Philadelphia Zoo last week, the little brown persons were bewildered and enchanted. As the instruments were tuned, the merry apes danced in their cages and cocked their ears. When the drummer tapped his drum, mandrill and marmoset cowered and wept with an uncontrollable fear. As the violins swept up in the frail music of a waltz, they all sat still as statues. Saxophone and trumpet made them run and jump. Then, when the musicians stopped, the monkeys shrilled, squealed, jabbered...
Worms. In Philadelphia, a gravedigger was busy making a house for a dead man. From the four brown walls of this house, little red worms leaned out, their slim questioning bodies bowing and writhing from round tunnels, like windows or portholes, as they sensed their purveyor working. He, "Joe" (last name unspecified in despatches), struck at one of the worms with a shovel, cutting him in two. Then, about to slaughter another, he scanned the walls of the house he was building. The walls were alive with tiny reptiles. Sliding out of their tunnels, they came writhing into the grave...
Harvard rowing will start its second year under the direction of Coach E. J. Brown '96 when candidates for the University and the University 150-lb. crews meet the mentor at Newell Boat House tomorrow. The University aspirants will gather at 4 o'clock, while the lighter oarsmen will assemble half an hour later...