Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, King's College, London, brother of very-cynical-about-nothing-in-particular Author Aldous Huxley, related observations in the realm of his famed grandfather, Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtships among low forms of life were his theme: male bristleworms wriggling in groups around females; fiddler crab bridegrooms posturing on tip-claw; hunting spider suitors offering a fly, neatly wrapped in webbing, to their prospective mates; penguins presenting bits of stone for nest-material. Professor Huxley also demonstrated that a fixed ratio exists between the members and body-weight of organisms of all sizes. A moose...
...penguins make love? Fiddler-crabs...
...band of Romanies from the break-up of their winter camp in New Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along in bright-painted horse-vans to flitting over the country in shiny automobiles. Whether or not some of the language is highflown-and whether or not gypsies ever caught chickens by dragging past a farmyard a fishhook baited with corn...
...Boston, one John Wilder, 80, Vermont fiddler, did not hesitate to blazon far and wide that he is an uncle of President Coolidge. He announced that he had read of the exploits of "Mellie" Dunham, famed "fiddler-to-Ford," and is prepared to play for the fiddling championship of New England. A few credulous, unmusical reporters were impressed when Mr. Wilder displayed his violin. "I tell you it's nearly 100 years...
With every fiddler in New England clamoring for a chance to wrest the crown from champion Mellie Dunham, Bob Lampoon, honorary editor of the Lampoon, veteran piccolo player, has signified his willingness to match tunes with the Maine player. Bob claims to have over one hundred different pieces, where Mellie has only three or four, but the piccolo player declares that with a little practice he can become profficient in "Turkey in the Straw" and "Old Zip Coon" as well...