Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easter Islanders were bird fanciers, in a way. Every year, when the sooty tern returned to the island to nest on the volcanoes, there was a bloody struggle over finding its first egg. The man who found it ran to the top of the mountain while the others shouted, "Shave your head, you have the egg." He shaved his head and painted it red while the losers slashed themselves with sharp instruments...
...such a bird ever get in FTC's nest? As Mason tells it, that is quite a story. The son of Illinois ex-Senator William E. Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...
...another with the quick, concentrated attention of a fan at a tennis match. When he looks at the model his brush hovers in midair; when he turns back to the canvas it hesitates a split second, then dips and weaves as swiftly as a swallow building a nest...
Earlier in the year, when the birds were nesting, the monks discovered a nest of swallows above the altar in the newly patched crypt of Saint Benedict. Some of them proposed to tear it down. But Dom Oderisco Graziosi good-humoredly intervened. "Let them stay," he urged. "After all, they too are rebuilding...
...Arthur A. Allen finds an extra nest of the curlew bird, perhaps he would be willing to move it to Denver and rent it to this discouraged family of homing pigeons...