Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ants and non-ants working in the ant hills. They make indiscriminate food deliveries all around. For another, they allow a species of butterfly to invade the nests and eat the grubs. The ants tolerate this because they like a sticky substance which the butterfly exudes. "It is," commented owl-eyed Biologist Huxley, "as if a nursemaid were to allow a wolf to carry off the baby from her pram in return...
...Grey Owl wanted to ask the children of Britain: "Will you promise never to take advantage of the weakness of another human being or animal? Never take the life of a weak and defenseless animal for your own amusement? Never join in a chase where foxes, stags, otters or hares are driven for miles & miles by crowds of dogs and men-and sometimes, I am afraid, by women and children? Is this fair play? Is this sport...
...Grey Owl, pride of the Province of Saskatchewan, is in point of fact not a native Canadian, not a born Ojibway, not a full-blooded Indian. Vague about his antecedents he believes he was born Archie McNeil, son of a Scottish father and an Apache mother from the U. S. After a childhood in the U. S. he was adopted into the Ojibway tribe in Ontario, given the name Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, meaning Walks-in-Dark or Grey Owl...
Married twice legally, five times according to Indian custom, Grey Owl travels with a French Canadian wife and a protector in the person of President Hugh Eayrs of Toronto's Macmillan Co., his publishers.* Mr. Eayrs's duty it is to keep the Grey Owl away from firewater and long-distance telephones, his chief extravagances, to allow him pocket money. From the Saskatchewan Government Grey Owl receives $75 a month as a warden, from lectures he receives up to $500 apiece, and he has a fortune estimated at $50,000. He has also had his portrait done...
After his snub by British Broadcasting Corp. last week Grey Owl announced that he was sailing immediately for the U. S. where 28 lectures await...