Word: owl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vicar's wife told me a little owl fell down her chimney, and that he was as black as a sweep; she picked him up and he fainted. She fetched brandy and gave him some in a spoon and he revived. She put him out of doors and his mother flew down and collected him. I once picked up a tawny owl after a gale; he was apparently dead, but he came round after some time spent on hot pipes. It is surprising what warmth will...
Making the Deal. While completing his project, Lamb drove some shrewd real estate bargains. Ten stores-among them branches of F. W. Woolworth, Edison Brothers Shoe Shops and Owl Drug Co.-subleased some of his spare land at $2,000 a front foot. Lamb was not afraid of the competition as long as it helped to pay the cost of his store...
...figured that the competition would help Broadway-Crenshaw get customers. His plan included a 10½-acre parking lot and an underground tunnel that keeps delivery trucks out of the way of customers' cars. A Los Angeles housewife who drives out to buy at Woolworth's or Owl is just as likely to drop into the Broadway store before she starts home...
Janus the Owl. In Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...
Also hit in the second straight night of paint splashing were the Widener Gate facing Massachusetts Avenue, the main entrance to Lowell House, and the Owl Club...