Word: rabbit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auto accident; at Tomahawk, Wis. Nick- named "Daisy" by his father (who imagined that his son's eyes looked up at him like flowers), Frederick Field never forgot the curious merry games his father used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam and the cata-maran." Through all his life, with the weakness of one whose childhood has been too happy...
...American might not have colored Psychologist Aveling's conclusions. Is all laughter "ugly . . . hard . . . selfish?" Is a father "ugly" when he manifests delight at the cunning or courage of his small son ? Is it "selfish" of children to chortle and bubble when the magician yanks the rabbit from the hat? Are those people "hard" who sometimes burst out laughing even when they are all alone, for no reason that they could tell you except that "it seems so good just to be alive on a day like this?" What about "Jovian laughter"? Was, or is, that a phenomenon...
Sixth day. Flyer Schlee was given a "good luck bead," used by Turkish cabbies to decorate their horses, and he blamed the bead for the delay in Turkey. He said it worked against his rabbit's foot. The Pride of Detroit, un-superstitious machine, rose from Constantinople, flew to Bagdad, 1,075 miles, making up time...
...magazines ever since I got the first copy several years ago. I do not like it to print misleading statements so call attention to TIME, June 20, p. 5. about flies and mosquitoes not being above 3,500 feet. The worst swarms of both I ever encountered were on Rabbit Ear Creek, tributary of Troublesome rivers, 20 or more miles north of Kremmling, Grand Co., Col., at an elevation of 8,000 feet...
...wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia. Fed it to my little pet rabbit. . . . Buried my little pet rabbit...