Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owl-eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...Owl Club...
Appointed to consider the Experimental College report, a committee from the Col lege of Arts & Sciences last April rejected its recommendations as too bulky, and not solving all difficulties. Still to be considered by Wisconsin is an alternative plan. If the Athenian owl is once more to figure at Madison, it may be somewhat as fol lows: When the financial situation justifies, let there be established a nonresidential, co-educational unit, with one or two hundred freshmen. During two years they will take one partially integrated course in civilizations or societies, taking also "Hill" courses in a ratio...
Promptly the Munich judge ruled, "You must answer the lawyer. The Court has no questions." But Witness Hitler kept mum as an owl, sat with arms folded while his brownshirt followers filled the courtroom with a chant of "Germany awake! Awake!! Awake...
...attitude of a soldier who thinks civil matters should be left to civilians, Col. Marmaduke Grove said: "I declare emphatically the firm determination of the Army & Navy not to mix in politics but to continue fulfillment of their duty in protecting the Socialist Republic." General Puga, mum as an owl, retired...