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Last year he had joined the chorus and, like the unhappy swain in the mouthwash advertisements, received no answer. This year he refused to waste his breath. Reason: he is the world's last heath cock. All his fellows and all heath hens are dead. This heath fowl, a North American grouse, is a close relative of the prairie chicken and about the same size. A mottled grey, his protective coloring makes him practically invisible among the scrub oaks which he frequents. Plenteous 75 years ago, the birds dwindled until 1907 when protective measures were taken. By 1916 they...
...child, a street, a monument, a steamship, a cocktail or a baseball bat. But there is a fitness to be observed in this business of name-lending. It would be very stupid for a manufacturer of safety-razors to name his product after Admiral Erberle; very rude of a mouthwash maker to call his deodorant "The Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City, who without permission bestowed upon a squat, ugly, evil-smelling...