Word: drake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they must be caught and securely tied in the bottom of the boat before the cygnets can be nicked. To a Swanherd a male swan is not a cock swan, or a drake swan, or even a bull swan: he is a "cob." The female is a "pen." Swift examination shows which is the cob, which the pen. Then the Swanmasters, with pecked fingers (and sometimes with pecked noses) divide the young. If a royal cob should be found married to a Dyers...
Married. Dr. Joseph Augustus Blake, 65, famed U. S. surgeon; to a Miss Florence Drake, 24, nurse; in Toronto. Not until Dr. Blake confirmed this marriage was it known that he had been divorced in April by Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, whose divorce in 1914 from Clarence Hungerford Mackay, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., was the domestic sensation...
...Rodney's officers changed their cricket flannels quickly, motored 15 miles to Torbay where the Rodney, world's twin- largest battleship lay at anchor.? Dartmouth cadets, thinking of Drake and his officers who were called from playing bowls to fight the Spanish Armada, buzzed with questions...
...belted by black cinder tracks marked off with whitewashed lines?one field on the Atlantic seaboard, one in the Midwest, one near the Pacific?teemed one afternoon last week with running, jumping, lunging figures in short white pants and varicolored track shirts. At the Penn relays in Philadelphia, the Drake relays in Des Moines, the West Coast relays in Fresno, U. S. athletes had, thrice equalled one world's record, and broken...
...poem deal with the adventures of the spirits of Raleigh, Drake, and other explorers, voyaging among the stars in the period following the World War. The reading will be illustrated by lantern slides showing some of the discoveries of modern astronomy. It will be open to the public...