Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There is a group of five lions, including a superb black-maned male. Four giant sable antelopes are resting in a copse of acacia trees. A pair of Bongo antelopes are pushing into a bamboo jungle, disturbing a forest hog which heaves up from its bed among ferns and orchids...
...Conservation. Last week the Senate passed and sent to the House a bill creating a Department of Conservation. Yet Secretary Ickes was anything but happy. The Senate bill gave him nothing but a new title, failed to give him administration of the Soil Conservation Service (new AAA), the Forest Service, the CCC. Worse still. Secretary Ickes' authority was on the point of being drastically deflated by the new relief bill coming before the Senate this week...
Later on there were flurries of excitement as the Hindenburg passed the Normandie, Europa, Statendam. United Pressman Webb Miller saw three whales spout. At dinner, most of the women, but only three men, put on evening clothes to eat Black Forest trout...
Under the new system you just keep to the right of the subway island, no matter where you may be coming from. There is over little chance for doing anything wrong, because there is a forest of signs on all sides saying "Rotary Traffic. Keep Right," "Do Not Enter," "Right Turn Only," and "No Left Turn." Yesterday, moreover, there was an entire squad of Cambridge police to keep you from going wrong...
...Scottish immigrant, David G. Blythe was born May 9, 1815 in a forest clearing near East Liverpool, Ohio. At 16 he was apprenticed to a Pittsburgh woodcarver, later moved on to New York to enlist in the Navy as ship's carpenter. As a boy he had been good at drawing funny likenesses of his neighbors. When his enlistment was up he drifted back to his home town, set up as an itinerant portrait painter. In those pre-camera days that meant a steady living, a free & easy life...