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...Irish landlady has placed the latest feather in Julian Coolidge's cap. As owner and mistress of a Plympton Street "pig-sty" near Lowell House she is reputed to have recently held out for $42,000 when the University bid for her property. Said she, glancing toward Mr. Coolidge's domain, "My Jim brought me here when this place was all a dump, and now that I have such good neighbors, by God, I mean to stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Parking in the wide spaces of the triangle's highway, where last year enormous laundry tricks passed safely between rows of shining Cadillacs, Packards, and Old Fords, without committing a feather's scratch, seems preferable to parking on the narrow public road a block to the North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARKING PETITION | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Birds of a feather will all flock together at this year's first meeting of the Harvard Ornithology Club in the Upper Common Room of Adams House on Friday evening, October 4, at 7.30 o'clock. Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, will show moving pictures of birds which he took with his own peculiar telephoto arrangement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ornithology Club Will Hold Initial Meeting on Friday | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...Blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Lily Greatbatch, the woman who plucked a feather from the tail of a Whipsnade ostrich, beamed cheerfully at me today when I asked her why she did it. Her offense had cost her a £1 fine and 10s. costs at Leighton Buzzard, Beds, earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ever Seen An Ostrich? | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...look of the bird there were several others who had obeyed that impulse. I saw another woman pluck one before I did. Mine was only half a feather and it cost me 30s., but it was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ever Seen An Ostrich? | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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