Word: crows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis, one M. J. Abbott, golfing, tried for a birdie. When the ball landed on the fairway, a crow swooped down, snatched the ball in its beak, flew away. "It's a birdie," said Golfer Abbott's merry companions...
...Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" lately crowed a loud, defiant crow. Last week lawyers in Manhattan and Brownsville, Tex., made ready to dispute the pros and cons of his crowing...
...Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot to get rid of the girl, first by such witchcrafts as burying a crow in the garden, later by murder. Best shot: Barbara Matatian's realization, as she comes into her husband's house for the last time, that something dangerous, terrible, something she cannot see, is waiting for her in the shadows beyond the door...
Legislative hobbles: A "Jim-Crow" law for the District of Columbia; U. S. Prohibition for foreign embassies in Washington. He lives at the Washington Hotel, keeps no motor, rides the street cars. He takes no physical exercise, does not "give a damn" for society, dancing, cards. Chief conversational topics: the glories of the Old South, keeping down the "nigger." He calls spades spades and has referred, on the Senate floor, to water closets, the smell of Negroes, giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever...
...Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. Each knew its name, and would run from the flock when its white-haired keeper called, and, sitting upon his hand or shoulder, would show queer signs of affection, not hesitating even to crow...