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...snatchers scratching at their arid meadows, bravely but without much recompense. One full year with the Shaw family and their neighbors makes rural life seem as lively as a cycle on Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George's wife prepares to run away. In the summer young Ollie Shaw...
...Living & Extinct Fishes in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, has an enormous head and a ridiculously short neck. Rapidly Curator Gregory ran through the list of creatures living & extinct which the monster resembled. It had the neck of a sea lion, the head of a sea cow, the body of a long dugong. But the parts did not fit. It could not, he concluded, be what it seemed...
...Paris' Natural History Museum arrived at Querqueville to settle the matter. Gravely they poked & peered. When they departed, carrying the creature's head and tail for comparison with museum specimens, their minds were made up. The monster was definitely: 1) not a whale; 2) not a sea cow...
...noon sun in a grey sky found Lieut. Howard M. McCoy piloting an observation plane with 211 Ib. of mail in her belly from Newark to Cleveland. Suddenly something went wrong with the lubrication. The motor burned out and Lieut. McCoy was forced down into a cow pasture at Dishtown, Pa. He slung the 211 Ib. of mail on his back, slogged two miles through the snow into Woodland, where he handed his mail over to the postmistress to be forwarded by train...
...last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold for $450 to $1,700 each...