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...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...
...Lawyer, Jersey City. At the head of the board of trustees will stand Grace Knight Babson, wife of Trustee Roger Ward Babson, famed financial dopester. At Babson Park, Massachusetts, Trustee Babson creates charts, graphs, tables of statistics, advises investors. At Babson Park, Florida, Chairman Grace Babson will train her flock to use charts, graphs, statistics, become investors. Trustees of Bennington College, chartered in 1924, to open next year, announced last week that they will provide "a curriculum planned to prepare women to meet the problems of the modern world." Other aims: emphasis on the individual, learning through living, community life...
...whose neighbors are a deaf and dumb couple, owning their home and keeping it up a credit to the neighborhood, sending a flock of well-dressed children to the public school, doing their full duty to society as citizens, supporting the whole by a pay-check truly earned and regularly banked, may think of the couple as an exception. If he will multiply this couple by ten thousand, or more, he will have a more exact conception of the public status of the deaf and dumb...
...vast majority- you give the impression that he was both a rogue and a fool. I wondered at times whether I was reading a review of Henry Ward Beecher or Elmer Gantry. You put them in the same class. "Uncouth. . . buffoon. . . pastor of a flock of golden sheep . . . women fainted when he shouted and roared. . . met charges with a stupid sarcasm." I say I have not read Hibben's book, but if you have reviewed it fairly it must be the most unsympathetic and prejudiced study of a man in the whole realm of biography...
...Harvard's drop-kick specialist of a few years back. 1924 merely saw a prolongation of the struggle, and then in 1925 Crimson failure to kick a point after touchdown into the afternoon's total gave the Purple its first victory over a Harvard team. Last year a bewildering flock of forward passes again turned the tables on the Crimson, this time by the more substantial score...