Word: crows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, came dressed in proletarian sack suits. Tossing off the Ambassador's champagne, they sported all night with the excuse of waiting for his cocks to crow at dawn...
...Chicago, at the annual meeting of the Izaak Walton League, the liars' division competed along the usual lines for the prize (a key to a sardine can) for telling the tallest fish story. In Los Angeles, Engineer L. M. Crow went up to the roof of a 14-story downtown skyscraper to empty and clean the water tank. He opened the outlet valve and out flopped a six-inch striped, small-mouthed bass...
...drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once, Benton would do a picture on the same subject. Adolescence will...
...exercise in the winter by swimming and squash. Out of a total of 1,016 Freshmen participating in athletics, 239 swim, 231 are squash racquetmen, and 119 take special corrective exercise. Participants Percent Swimming 239 23.5 Squash 231 22.6 Special Exercise 119 11.8 Track 86 8.4 Basketball 84 8.3 Crow 65 6.4 Boxing 47 4.6 Wrestling 44 4.3 Fencing 44 4.3 Hockey 22 2.2 Gymnasium 11 1.1 Polo 9 .9 Managers 8 .8 Miscellaneous...
...Francisco and back the Panama-Pacific Liner Pennsylvania logged the following incidents: Her surgeon died of a stroke. The engine-room storekeeper died of pneumonia. Both were buried at sea. Brooding because the boatswain had taken his bedroom slippers, the ship's lookout fell 40 ft. from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper who had a chicken...