Word: carrions
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...rarely seen in the company of more than one of its kind. These attributes make U. S. citizens unversed in Nature proud to acknowledge the bald eagle as their national bird and emblem. Shocking to patriots are the facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were appointed in 1776 to design...
...March a wayfarer saw a flock of great, vulture-like birds tearing and gulping the carrion. They were bald eagles, of which only an occasional pair had hitherto been seen in the neighbor hood. Since then Cherryfielders have dropped their ordinary recreations to watch the birds. Twice each day, at sun rise and sunset, the eagles swoop on the stinking feast from their five-foot-wide nests in the trees of Cat's Skin Mountains. Observers have been able to approach within 400 ft. of the birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through...
...According to press reports, Hibbing's congressman declared that President Roosevelt is a goofus bird that does not care in which direction it flies so long as it keeps on flying. Hibbing's congressman is a buzzard that flies about looking for carrion...
With the old Machado regime dead as carrion, sharp-eyed old politicos began floating home out of exile. First three to arrive and line up their former supporters were Colonel Carlos Mendieta, bearded ex-President Mario Garcia Menocal, leader of the Conservative party, and former Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana. Colonel Mendieta is elderly. General Menocal and Dr. Gomez have many a stench to live down from their previous political careers, are regarded with small enthusiasm by young Cubans. But President de Cespedes' ability to handle his fractious island is still an unknown quantity...
Last week the vultures found ripe carrion, a pile of 45 framed etchings at $2 each. They were rather smudgy plates by someone obviously impressed by William Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over...