Word: cock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when spirits are hard to get and usually cut when got, to fill a Chair of Spiritonomy would be a difficult task. But with sufficient inspiration the incumbent might well make researches of inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...fate of a Last Survivor, the lone lingering member of a species. Mateless, childless, friendless, he can only sit and brood upon the fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock of Martha's Vineyard. Once his kind filled the woods from Maine to Virginia, but hunters' guns reduced their numbers to a single flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year...
...from Wisconsin where he studied prairie chickens (Tympanuchus americanus), found them so similar to the heath-hen (Tympanuchus cupido) that no eye less sharp than an expert's could tell one from the other. Both are pinnated grouse. A prairie chicken, thought Dr. Gross, would make the heath-cock a very good mate indeed. The State of Wisconsin agreed to ship a few prairie chickens, New York sportsmen agreed to bear the cost; Dr. Gross agreed to choose the hen, to introduce it to the heath-cock's retreat. But there was no time to waste, he warned...
...Calling at the White House, Charles R. Abbott, executive director of the American Institute of Steel Construction, told the President: "Politically you are becoming stronger and stronger every day." Billie Dove, cinemactress (Cock o' the Air), also visited Mr. Hoover, told him he "looked well...
Last week Agent Frank C. McCready of the S. P. C. A. led a raid on a cock fight near Kutztown, Berks County, Pa. Arrested were 48 men, two women, 38 fighting cocks. The men & women were fined, lectured. The cocks were ordered destroyed...