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...remarkably low prices for early in the season. Late in November, prices come down. It is then, just before the grouse season closes and after the rich renters have killed the female and young grouse, and gone away, that the patient Scotsmen go afield. They know that the old cock grouse have been hiding all autumn in the hills, will come down for plentiful feeding, easy killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: The Twelfth | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...philosophic cow which not only sings falsetto and bass but also performs duets with itself will next November join that operatic zoo which includes the lyrical Forest Bird and the Dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duetting Cow | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...smoke-begrimed frame on a wall of Tennessee's capitol, Andrew Jackson seemed to cock his long ears expectantly one day last week. Below him sat the House, strangely hushed. Another hot political battle?the kind Old Hickory loved so well?was rumbling into Nashville. To his feet rose Representative John Tipton of Tipton to announce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Empire Dust | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

David Herbert Lawrence's second novel to appear posthumously in the U. S. (the first: The Virgin and The Gipsy, TIME, Nov. 24) may not be his last word but it is a good place to stop. When published in Paris (1929) under the title of The Escaped Cock it drew words of high praise even from so belittling a Lawrence critic as John Middleton Murry. Devoutly orthodox Christians may find the story blasphemous (it will certainly be awarded a place on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitor urn) but regular Lawrence readers will doubtless take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lawrence and Christ | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...field, now under strict proration. Last week Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. threatened to reopen this wound by seeking an injunction against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moaning Giant | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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