Word: grebe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...
Next day Skipper Gulliver set out from Boston on his travels to exhibit the Constitution in 18 Atlantic ports this summer. Thousands watched in silence as the old frigate was towed away by the mine sweeper Grebe, her brand-new sails tightly furled. Her crew of 60 was too small to handle her under her own canvas (Captain Isaac Hull had 450 men when he beat the Guerrière). Her first port was Portsmouth, N. H. but at Gloucester she had to be towed in because...
Hunting over Sequoia National Park. Calif, for a stream upon which to alight an eared grebe spied a fine dark river with curiously straight and even banks. The grebe swooped, skidded down upon a wet. hard highway, died a few days later despite ministrations by kind park employes...
...present set is a Grebe Synchrophase-as good a set as I have ever tested-or heard...
...Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...