Word: loree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indebted to "Time" for the latest bit of Conant lore. The President, it seems, has been somewhat nostalgic for test tubes and the small of chlorophyll. The new job didn't offer the opportunities for diversion that the old one did. But Mrs. Conant solved the problem. The President has taken up painting to while away his spare moments...
Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus...
JACOB WASSERMAN again demonstrates his ability as a story-teller in his latest volume of Jewish Lore. The Dark Pilgrimage (Liveright, $2.50). His account of the re-incarnation of a 17th century prophet who had betrayed his people is one that will prove fascinating, as well as instructive. Four stars for this, and it's a grand gift selection...
...past 25 years he has been the Museum's curator-in-chief of birds. He has done as much as any man living to teach his countrymen to know and love birds. He originated the Museum's brilliantly realistic habitat groups; founded a magazine Bird-Lore; lectured widely; composed standard guides and handbooks for amateurs...
...under the impression that the ice cake will reach some port of safety but to U. S. audiences it seems that Mala is headed directly for what the picture calls "the last Igloo." At once an exciting travelog and a threadbare melodrama. Eskimo is typical Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer nature lore, solemn, lively, expensive. Most exciting shot: Mala, when he has eaten his last husky, lying down on the snow in order to attract a hungry wolf, which he chokes to death, tears apart for supper...