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Also designated were Benismin L. Molt-man, Jr., Leverett; Leonard Orkin, Eliot.; Ralph I. Petersberger, Lowell; James L. Peterson, Lowell; John Richards II, Winthrop; and John P. Rosenthal, Dunster...
...mulberries and, much to the consternation of a neighbor's chickens, liked to hang upside down from the branches of a mulberry tree. Molly had been trained by a lady known locally as French Marguerite. Her habits "bewildered the virtuous and provincial hens and caused them to molt before their season...
...where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...
...suspicious father who supplies the comic relief contrives to make himself asinine to even the six year olds, and Schubert's molt-a-heart-of-stone sob which climaxes the second act, are the bright spots in a sopping sentimental story
Maine lobstermen say other U. S. lobsters are inferior to theirs. Maine lobsters are sturdy, cannibalistic, pugnacious. They will stand on their hind claws, lift their fore claws and strike out like boxers. They molt three or four times a year. After a young lobster has cast its shell it turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore...