Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goats. As U. S. businessmen sat back to see how much they could believe of Saint Harry's epistle to the erstwhile Philistines (see p. 49), historians noted the emergence of a new flock of U. S. goats. These were lawyers, business and constitutional. Lawyers were given their turn as national goats-after Bankers, Businessmen, Tories and Publishers-by Harry Hopkins when he blamed them last week for adding to Business' uncertainty during the Reform period of the New Deal by their "shortsighted counsel"; again, when he chortled over how the utilities were finally told...
Bridge devotees will flock to the Winthrop dining-hall at 8 o'clock tonight for the University Bridge Championships. Qualifiers are to compete in the finals tomorrow night. Engraved playing cards will go to the winning combination...
...some of them non-Episcopalians, had petitioned the Tennessee Diocesan Convention for permission to form a new parish, to be named St. James'. Permission granted, the parish invited popular Mr. Noe to be its rector. Pending the raising of money to build a church, Mr. Noe's flock planned to meet wherever they could hire or borrow a hall. In his first sermon, preached in a synagogue, Rector Noe promised "the greatest crusade for Christ ever known." Last Sunday, in the Nineteenth Century Club, he preached on "The Twentieth Century Church...
...should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them at the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and . . . said . . . Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. . . . The shepherds said one to another, let us go now even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which...
...ages, men's imaginations have been stirred by the flight of birds. No more dramatic flights have been recorded than those of the pastel-colored passenger pigeons-Audubon guessed a billion in one flock-which once streamed across U. S. skies. The speed with which they were slaughtered was no less fabulous than their flights. (In New York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised...