Word: owl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their walls. Yet, in the next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about the bright city on whose finest temple an owl perched, like a symbol of tragic and sagacious hunger, they might, in some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes instead of shouting his silliest lines to a football team; Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus might teach them something about...
...extra-curriculum activities. They had their own dramatic club, which produced The Clouds of Aristophanes and Electro, of Euripides. Then, fraternizing their classical strides, the students adopted as the official uniform of the Experimental College a blue blazer with pearl grey trimming and with emblem of sacred Athenian owl. Many a Wisconsin's farmer's son twitted them for wearing it. The relations of the faculty and students were close-teas and chats being mentioned with enthusiasm. Some of the boys must have looked into Author Ernest Hemingway, for here is the way they describe members...
...Merchants. Humanitarian gizzards pulsated last week upon mention of a new $25,000,000 corporation to manufacture and distribute machines which-for a nickel, dime, quarter or slug dropped into a slot-will deliver any one of a thousand commodities, from candy to cathartics. Three drug store chains (Liggett, Owl, Walgreen), Happiness Candy Stores, United Cigar, Schulte, Union News, McCrory, Woolworth, Penney, Metropolitan and Grant stores will thus dispense part of their wares, and as smartly as their clerks the machines will cry out "Thank you" to the customers. They will also say "Corked tips protect the lips," or some...
...distinguished career as a conductor; wrote tone poems which, in the U. S. at least, remain his most popular work. Of these, Don Juan is perhaps the most celebrated; Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...
...familiarity with rivers and dams and husbanding food through lean seasons. Any man of distinctive personality and appearance resembles some animal. Senator Borah is a bear; Secretary Mellon, an aging horse of fine blood; Senator Heflin, an astounding whale calf; Senator Johnson, a caged lion; Senator Norris, an owl; Senator Watson, a roguish elephant; Charles Evans Hughes, a lofty mountain goat; Will H. Hays, a monkey; Curtis Dwight Wilbur, a stork. Herbert Clark Hoover is a beaver-man, aged 53, in his prime...