Word: hens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might awaken a similar response on behalf of America's greatest and, at one time, most beloved upland game bird. In fact, Rex. king of grouse, truly depicts what would be so lacking in our woodlands, if allowed to go the way of the passenger pigeon and heath hen...
...tiny Guzzi Lantschner) who teach her to ski in the intervals when they are not clowning on skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with a dozen top-hatted ushers tail-wagging down the mountain in formation...
When Berley Winton, poultry expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was informed by the Press last week that a Japanese farmer named Kichi Fujikura claimed a new world's record of 361 eggs in a year for his Leghorn hen, he grudgingly exclaimed: "That's mighty fine, but the farmer's claims are unofficial. We don't recognize them...
...make ugly hats," thereby removing a genial animal as well as causing floods. In 1857 the Ohio legislature decided that passenger pigeons "the most abundant and the most beautiful of American game birds," needed no protection. The last existing specimen died in Cincinnati in 1914. "One solitary heath hen was living at last accounts."* The catch of Pacific salmon has dropped from ten million pounds annually to less than one million. Enough timber is destroyed by forest fires every year to build a five-room house every 100 feet on both sides of the road from New York to Chicago...
When the War broke Speyer Brothers went out of business and "Hen Opp" retired, made no more money, bought little more art. With Zeppelins over London in 1917, Sir Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the London Subway." In his memoirs published fortnight ago* Sir Charles recalled how "Hen Opp" quickly arranged to store in "the unused station in the Strand . . . a perfect subterranean fortress . . . some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from...