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...month-old Meyersdale, Pa., turkey that weighed 62 pounds. Most curious was a Wyandotte hermaphrodite whose only noise was a low food call. There were Toulouse geese; a white leghorn rooster worth $5,000 (owner's valuation); an Australorp hen that laid 346 eggs last year; a flock of Japanese Silkies with down instead of feathers; a snouted, ring-eyed Buff-Laced Polish rooster, crested like an Indian chief in a medicine show...
...were born in these years. At Islip the parson made the great mistake of asking Hero Graves to read some of his poetry to the congregation. Hero Graves obliged by reading some of the ghastliest of Poets Wilfred Owen's, Siegfried Sassoon's war verses; scandalized the flock. In May, 1929, Graves and his wife separated...
...Universities of Madrid and Barcelona are by far the largest in Spain today", he continued, "having replaced Salamanca which flourished alone in the days of the Moors. The students naturally flock to the capital, Madrid, and to the largest commercial center, Barcelona, the result being that only 400 students occupy the tremendous and ancient buildings at Salamanca. One of the most remarkable things about these Spanish Universities is that it is only within the last few years that they have started to teach modern languages. Tied up, as they have been, with tradition, they have taught Arabic, Greek, and Latin...
...same idea: "You see men walking and they seem to be free but look at their faces, they're caught." The first poem is Jeffers' version of the Passion Play, with Judas cast in a major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says Poet Jeffers: "There is some relationship between the two . . . poems . . . the shepherdess in one, and Judas and Jesus in the other, each embodying different aspects of love; nearly pure, therefore undeluded...
Debutantes from the U. S. who have wintered in Madrid know Alba as the gay Grandee who owns the flock of brown dachshunds. At all his balls and some-times at the King's they romp and yap among the dancers' legs?especially the one called Jimmie. But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin. With expression meek as mice, the Alba browns have been painted with their master by Spain's most aristocratic portraitist, Ignacio Zuloaga...