Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventeen and three-quarters pounds of owl flesh, genus bubonibae, were perched comfortably on Sophomore Harold T. Blaine's couch when he woke up in his Leverett House lodgings early yesterday morning. The creature flopped its wings ominously when Blaine approached it and chased him from the room...
Blaine returned shortly after with a group of neighbors who proceeded to pummel the walls with pillows Halliburton Fales 2nd '42 used a less violent method of trapping the bird, however, and according to Blaine, proved that he had "owl appeal" by his success in petting the frightened creature...
...paintings testified to the industry of one of England's least indolent young men. Broad-shouldered, shock-headed Artist Scott inherited not only his father's features but his liking for open air. At intellectual Trinity College, Cambridge, he lived unsociably with a pet snake and an owl, spent his vacations duck-hunting and sailing. For his painting he chose an open-air subject-wild fowl...
...upon her Dobie jerks retired majors from the India service out of their club chairs. But to most people, big and little, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and many punny funny drawings remain Lear's tag to fame...
...Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note...