Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audiences. Richard Wagner used to insist on live beasts on the stage for his various animal-parts, and his widow, Cosima Wagner, who is running this show, insists on the same. 'Consequently this year's crop of Bayreuth pilgrims are viewing with glee Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad-and, of course, the Dragon. Where the Dragon was found for this year's performance, one is unable to discover at this distance. . . . The Rhine maidens, buxom Bavarian lasses all, were swung, as Wagner directed, by wires...
...French gland-grafter, had stated that it was possible to increase the wool crop of sheep by gland-transplanting. He added that he hoped, by repeating the process on several generations of sheep, to create a special breed unusually wool-productive. He said that he was experimenting on a flock of 3,000 sheep in Algeria...
Fricka's flock of real goats, Wotan's ravens, Siegfried's bear and toad...
...Frank A. Vanderlip decided to give a Japanese garden party at Beechwood, Scarborough-on-the- Hudson, for the benefit of Tsuda College, destroyed by the Japanese earthquake. They wanted to invite Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani-hara. So they martialed a flock of carrier pigeons and the 102nd Aviation Squadron of the National Guard at Staten Island, to deliver a message to each of these distinguished diplomats. Lieutenant J. Kendrick, of the Aviation Squadron, was equipped with a Curtiss plane-familiarly known as a "Jenny," powered with a 100-horsepower engine and capable of 70 to 75 miles an hour...
Only in these two rounds did Harvard look woefully bad at the bat. In the other innings Captain Jenkins and his men made Carroll pitch to the limit and constantly threatened to break open the game with a flock of hits. The very first inning presaged what was to happen all the afternoon. Campbell and Gordon singled sharply to the Purple outfield with one out only to be left on base when Todd struck out and Hammond rolled feebly to Gautreau...