Word: marden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Depression, Yellowstone tourists have grown fewer, hotel scraps scarcer, bears hungrier. In Washington last week Director Horace Marden Albright announced that the National Park Service had been forced to kill 49 Yellowstone black bears, one grizzly during last summer and autumn...
...more from crown to anklebone, and some of 'em as black as coal. . . ."-thus honest Yokel Mykelborne holding forth in the taproom to his fellow-worthies, who listened chopfallen, goggle-eyed. Such fine and pungent talk was to be had almost any evening in the inn at Marden Fee, and it is the chorus of talk, not the incidental pastoral melodrama you will remember from Author Bullett's book. The story opens in prehistoric England, in the "squat" (hut-settlement) of Koor. Koor, hitherto invincible patriarch, is aging, and the young hunters are beginning to mutter to each...
...Sixty were present. Many had been wounded in action. None had liquor. The spirit was remarkably matured thought, striking dignity and intense respectability," says Mr. Marden...
...seems safe to conclude that Mr. Marden did not attend the business sessions, and the committee meetings of the Boston convention. There he could have found matured thought, dignity and respectability, but hardly intense respectability. When respectability becomes ''intense" it labors and creaks at the joints...
...Marden and his non-legionaire friends join the Legion and lend it their matured thought, their striking dignity and their intense respectability. They cannot destroy entirely the sense of humor that is characteristic of legionaires, and they will learn, among other things, that the Legion has kept faith with the disabled veteran and his dependents, that in its more than 10,000 posts it is giving unselfish aid to communities, states and nation, and that it is a mighty patriotic force that has served and will continue to serve this country well...