Word: owls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher, and a pygmy owl. The four towering volcanoes which surround the lake are thought to have prevented the birds from migrating...
...Owl Club...
...Owl, fox, hawk and the mighty He with his thunderstick all take turns at the Fifteen Rabbits, a group which, like the Forty-Nine Bottles, solemnly and inevitably diminishes. Hops and his affinity Plana, both first appearing as babes, enjoy lucky escapes, but little Epi, their companion, is seized by some young Hes and Shes and dies in captivity, piteously. The remaining ones cavort and chatter, their ears droop and rise, their whiskers twitch, and they meet various fates. Later appears Iago, an embittered dog who tried to go native but found he had no talent for it. He inadvertently...
...venerable sage "AE" (George Russell), who once gravely reviewed these hilarious animated cartoons in his august (now defunct) review The Irish Statesman. In Berlin last week a solemn German censor sat down to view that grand old strip of celluloid Mickey Mouse in the Trenches. Afterward, still owl-solemn, he ruled as follows: "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose a militia of mice is offensive to national dignity. Permission to exhibit this production in Germany is refused...
Last year Drug, Inc. bought some more stores-the 18 May Drug Stores of Pittsburgh; the eight Wolff-Wilson stores of St. Louis; and this spring the 106 Owl stores of the middle and far West. Thus there is a Drug, Inc. retail store in the business and residential districts of every fair-sized city in the U. S. and in most of those in Great Britain...