Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PETER W. BURS Washington...
...Very different were crops in Hungary where peasants were waiting to declare Peter-Paul Day, their traditional day of harvest. They expected to cut 96,000,000 bushels of wheat, 35,000,000 bushels of rye from Hungary's immensely fertile Alföld (plains). Well might Nazis, who take about 60% of Hungary's exported wheat, look pleased...
...Moto Takes a Vacation (Twentieth Century-Fox), but it is a busman's holiday. Detective Moto (Peter Lorre) convoys a much-coveted bauble on a voyage from Honolulu to San Francisco, spends most of the time tossing red herring back into a sea of circumstance...
Last week at Ackermann's gallery in London, Peter Markham Scott's seventh exhibition of paintings testified to the industry of one of England's least indolent young men. Broad-shouldered, shock-headed Artist Scott inherited not only his father's features but his liking for open air. At intellectual Trinity College, Cambridge, he lived unsociably with a pet snake and an owl, spent his vacations duck-hunting and sailing. For his painting he chose an open-air subject-wild fowl...
...result of this specializing, Peter Scott at 29 probably knows more about wild ducks and geese-and paints them better in oils-than any living artist. For the last five years his home has been an old lighthouse on The Wash, a place of inlets and tidal marshes on the Lincolnshire coast; where he makes pets of the wild geese. Ornithologist as well as artist, Scott last year spent four months around the Caspian Sea in a vain search for a rare red-breasted goose...