Word: gulls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of the Austin party to make a bird census of the Labrador coast. The effect of the relentless bird slaughter of the natives on bird life will be carefully studied. Among the birds who will be studied are the Great Black Backed Gull, Glaucus Gull, Herring, Gull, Puffins, Razor Billed Aul, Black Guillemot, and Arctic Tern...
...Tired Gull...
...Thomas Marshall, fisherman, looked up from nets he was tending in the middle of the English Channel and squinted off over five miles of tossing grey water. Aye, there could be no doubt of it, she was coming down, on a long slant like a tired gull. It was too far off to see a splash, but Thomas Marshall had trawled the English Channel long enough to know a London-to-Paris airliner when he saw one. He did not hesitate. Rather than delay to haul in his nets, he bade his crew hack them free and pointed his smack...
...soon after, Quack Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis...
...forefinger jabbing northwestward. "I see 'um!" he cried. First it was a mosquito-like speck over the ocean, then an ephemeral insect frame, then a droning, then a roaring seaplane that circled Darwin Heads and harbor, over the blasting sirens of steamers and warships, then a tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift the craft (a big De Havilland biplane) ashore and fit her with wheels; she was to fly on, over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled...