Word: owls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which inspires me to add this final verse of Somebody Else who took the Owl for the haven of supper clubs and sentient souffies. I think last night, and who really doesn't much care whether...
...Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the men could inquire into the cause of their summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...
JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live...
...annual appearance here a few days ago serves once more to remind us that here is a novel experiment in music. Several years ago, when Dr. Archibald T. Davison took charge, college glee clubs were as negligible as could well be imagined. The literature available to them included "The Owl and Pussy Cat" and "The Bullfrog on the Bank," with "Kentucky Babe" thrown in for the classical taste, and it included very little else. In fact, most people regarded college glee clubs as in the same category as measles epidemics and grasshopper plagues--as afflictions sent by God, that...
Dartmouth was put in a position to score in the ninth when Owl, Indian second sacker, reached first base when Ullman booted a ground ball. Hudgins advanced Owl with a perfect bunt, which only excellent fielding by Spalding prevented from becoming a safety. Elliot lifted a long fly to Rogers in center field for the second out, and the stage was set for Bjorkman's sensational drive...