Word: pandas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what must be taken as a coincidence, the arrival in Hankow, China of Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., dress designer turned huntress, with her second captive baby giant panda in hand, was admirably timed to advertise the publication of her book about her first successful panda expedition (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936).* A womanly book, full of distaff concern with clothes, medicines, the handsomeness of hunters, The Lady and the Panda gives credit for taking panda No. 1. Su Lin, where credit is said to be more than due-to Chinese Professional Hunters Jack and Quentin Young (Yan Di Lin). Businesslike...
...panda, named Diana after Quentin Young's athletic wife, was two months old, weighed 13 pounds when captured by native farmers in the Samulin Mountains. Arriving in Hankow in the midst of a Japanese air raid, Mrs. Harkness said that she had caught Diana "so that Su Lin might have a real sister to play with." and that she hopes to catch a third, male specimen, so that Su Lin and Diana will have more than a playmate...
...LADY AND THE PANDA-second book on the list of an ambitious new Manhattan firm, Carrick & Evans...
...started one hot Saturday afternoon when the good people of Chicago were preparing to make the next day, Fourth of July, just as much hotter as possible. Gamins with a malicious glint in their eye tossed firecrackers under the wheels of passing cars. The Baby Giant Panda in the Brookfield Zoo was so scared that he refused the attentions of the trained nurse and pointed his tongue naughtily at his monkey neighbors...
There has probably been too much said all ready about the panda and I do not know anything more about them, but I do know about bamboo growing in America and thought you might be interested to know that I am growing three kinds here and one of them is over 30 ft. high. They are, Bambusa aurca, yellow canes; Bambusa argenteostriata grows 30 ft.; Bambusa Metake, hardiest bamboo...