Word: faunas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sights of Florida in 1824, in the days when Florida's sights were pretty well confined to flora & fauna, was the new owner of a 1,2OO-acre plantation known as Parthenope, near St. Augustine. The bachelor proprietor was 23, and had a nervous, knowing, extraordinary manner...
Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...
This is one of the few really smart and effective performances ever put on by British Communists. In occasional local victories, they have always been unnatural, un-British political fauna, consciously out of place, and therefore negligible. If this business somehow signals a change of climate wherein British Communists at last find a home and a purpose, then something really has happened to Britain...
...would be some city park that had beaver, chipmunks, and deer on the loose (like Brookfield, near Chicago, maybe). But, as it happens, Toronto's Algonquin Park (TIME, April 16) is about 180-odd miles from Toronto and has, in addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
...year-old Dr. Stearns was typical of the group. One of his first jobs, when he was in the Solomons with the Thirteenth Air Force, was to find out what was ailing pilots and ground-crewmen. His verdict: acute boredom. His effective remedy: gardening, classes about the natives, flora & fauna, geology...