Word: paws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just returned from expeditions to Australia and South America in search of specimens. Such travel has its compensations. There is considerable distinction in being on terms of familiarity with a live cassowary, to say nothing of a wallaroo. These men derive great satisfaction from pacing the deck with the paw of a wallaby tucked under one arm, and a cortege consisting of a duck-billed platypus, a green opossum and wombats trailing in the rear. One ship brought a huge tortoise, the last of his race, giant lizards, penguins and cormorants that had forgotten...
...commence the ardent one-act struggle for the bays? Who, but the Little Theatre of Bridgeport in The Rut, a drama by Sara Sherman Pryor? From the rising of the curtain upon that production on Monday to the falling of it upon the last scene of The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs, produced by the Montclair Players of Montclair on Friday, how the gallant conflict raged...
...three tricky pitchers. Barron, a football man, and Esan Settle are particularly potent with the stick; the longest hit ever made on Grants Field travelled from Settle's bat over the right field bleachers in the second game with Oglethorpe. The boxmen are Dan O'Leary, a south-paw, and Thompson and Collins, Freshmen...
Coach Slattery will play the same team except that Perkins will probably replace Hallowell in right field, as the former is more effective against a south-paw. Felton will have another opportunity to face the hard-hitting Westerners...
...Harvey all were on the nine which last spring defeated the University. Schriver, the left-handed shortstop, is a Californian who has shown up well this spring, and for whom great hopes are held. Besides handling well in the field, he has the ability, rare in a south-paw, of hitting right and left-handed pitchers equally well...