Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreadful din. But when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling...
...only trouble with the North Sea experiment was that the guinea pigs flatly refuted the experimenters' report. The only unquestioned result was a bewildering altercation between Herr Goring's office and Great Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, effervescent Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...
Last week the U. S. people were witnessing and undergoing an experiment in applied Economy. The Congressmen who initiated it having gone home to their guinea pigs, the officials who had to direct it from Washington went sadly but not silently to work...
...barnstorming aviator and Hollywood cameraman, Miller tells as many tall ones as Trader Horn, makes some of them sound convincing. The first white child raised in Netherlands New Guinea, he began his jungle jaunts at five, and while still an adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought...
...stride than did Seabrook. On one occasion he says he led a highly successful head-hunting expedition to save his own neck, spares few details in describing it and the three-day orgy which followed. As other races use lanterns, flags and bunting for celebrations, the natives of New Guinea string up their victims' vertebrae...