Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mourning dove has been commoner than the robin in some parts of the U. S. But it is quickly going the way of its late great cousin, the passenger pigeon. Southerners slaughter the birds by the thousands. Stricter hunting laws to protect this vanishing game bird are imminent...
...Japan. He even suggested that "the white race cede"; 1,200,00-mile Oceania, the islands of the south Pacific "to the Asiatics," i.e., Japan. The metaphor-of-the-week was produced by the Army's spokesman, Major Kunio Akiyama. Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain-has placed its egg in the dove's nest." The egg, Major Akiyama went on to explain, was "the fortification of Singapore, the arrival of Australian troops in Malaya and the impending fortification of Guam and Samoa...
...knows," said the Major, "but the dove will protest vigorously...
...entering his 80th year, Walter Damrosch had better to boast of than his operas (he wrote three others, The Scarlet Letter, The Dove of Peace, The Man Without a Country). No man living has one more for good music in the U. S. than he. Born of a famed conductor father (Leopold Damrosch) in Breslau, Germany, Walter Damrosch took his own opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap...
Bosworth's performance was the best of the evening as the Crimson outfit limited the Young Christian men to one first and one second place. McNamara of the visitors eked out a win in the dives over Sophomore Brad Patterson despite the fact that Patterson dove better than ever before in varsity competition. He scored 96.3 points to McNamara's 98.5 total. Shaw McCutcheon, regular first string diver was absent from the lineup because of a torn muscle in his shoulder. He will be ready to make the trip to Annapolis this week...