Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Old Party of Lincoln, McKinley and Harding last week received the ultimate insult. In the American Magazine shrewd old Charles ("Charley the Mike") Michelson, ace Democratic press-agent whose propagandizing since 1928 gets an owl's share of credit for returning his Party to power and keeping it there, published a straight-faced article titled My Advice...
From Harvard's collections of original drawings by Audubon, there are shown colored portraits of the passenger pigeon, now extinct, and that of the American widgeon, ivory billed woodpecker, red owl, frog eater, chuck will's widow, yellow billed cuckoo, whip-poor-will, and others. Audubon's early work as a young man of twenty-three along the Ohio river is shown in drawings of the belted kingfisher, red-winged blackbird, and cat bird...
...were enabling the Leftists to succeed last week, just as previous sweeping Rightist drives relied enormously on Italian and German bombers and tanks. Nearly every night last week Madrid put on wild celebrations. Its Defense Junta voted to decorate its chairman General José Miaja "for valor." This wise, owl-bald Spanish professional soldier had to exert himself afresh to check the "overoptimism" against which he is so tart...
...biggest drugstore chain in the U. S., but the biggest money-maker is Walgreen Co. It operates fewer stores (508) than United Drug, Inc. (568), has had none of the financial headaches of that rival. United operates mostly in the East (Liggett stores) and in California (Owl stores), while Walgreen concentrates in the Midwest. In 1932 United was eager to merge with Walgreen but was turned down, and next year the Liggett-controlled chains went through bankruptcy. Walgreen prospered during Depression, even expanded. Last week, to furnish working capital for further expansion, Walgreen Co. filed with SEC a recapitalization plan...
...fine pair of English racing homers, imported from the estate of an English fancier and bought by Charles Heinzman of Louisville. ¶ Best bird in the show was a Blue African Owl, weighing 1/2 lb., which received a fountain pen, a plaque and $11.50 in cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise...