Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor does not want to give the authorities a whole hand for breaking down the intellectual tariff walls which exist between Yale College Departments. He wants to criticize, and he bewails the impending dilletanteism of the students in this field. A glance toward Harvard might have shown the undergraduate owl of Yale how the plan might be successfully executed...
Claude Gernade Bowers of Manhattan, journalist, political historian (The Tragic Era) was pronounced persona grata at Madrid. Owl-eyed Mr. Bowers keynoted the 1928 Democratic Convention ("To your tents. O Israel...
...close observer of the vibration experiments has been Bailey Willis, Leland Stanford's professor emeritus of geology. Southern Californians consider fluffy-bearded Professor Willis a mischievous hoot owl because, after the devastating 1925 earthquake at Santa Barbara and during the Los Angeles boom, he indiscreetly predicted that the next violent upheaval of the Pacific Coast would occur, as it did. in Southern California. At that time he commented: "Men's memories are sadly short, when they can find cheaper ways of doing things. Yet we can be, and some day will be, reasonably safe against earthquakes in American...
...Extremely interesting articles are punctuated with obnoxious and sarcastic references such as "Big-chinned Mr. Roosevelt," "Big-nosed Ogden L. Mills," "Long-eared Mr. Reed," "Owl-eyed Mr. This," "Widemouthed Mr. That," and so on. What do you find of value in such unwarranted and undignified commentary methods...
...their feathers are caught by the sticky seed pods. The more they struggle, the tighter they get gummed up. A resident of New Plymouth, N. Z., named J. Wheeler has a birdcatcher tree which has trapped hundreds of small birds. Last week it killed its largest victim, a brown owl which natives call the rum. Englishmen the Morepork...