Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American robin redbreast (named mistakenly by the English settlers after the real robin in England) is a thrush. He is a large bird with a dull red breast and he struts across the lawns with the characteristic thrush walk. . . . The American squirrel ... is a large grey...
Winnie-the-Pooh, 18, famed brown bear in the London Zoo, was reported dying of old age. Originally named Winnie, the bear was supposedly observed by Christopher Robin, young son of Author Alan Alexander Milne, to say "Pooh" to all visitors, including royalty. Christopher Robin named his teddy bear after her, Winnie-the-Pooh. Author Milne named a children's book after the teddy bear. The bear in the zoo was finally named after the book. Winnie's condition last week was watched with keen interest in Manhattan by the Winnie-the-Pooh Association, exclusive U. S. licensers of Pooh...
...woman) he is neither crippled nor blind, nor has he a harelip. His professional name dates back to his childhood on a Maryland plantation. A bird house in the backyard was occupied by a colony of martins, identified by his mother in her story telling as John, Joan, Robin, Alice (et al.) Martin...
...Author. Youngest son of a local artist of Robin Hood's Bay (Bramblewick), a Yorkshire fishing village, Author Walmsley ran off to sea when young, later became Curator of the Yorkshire Marine Biological Station. He served during the War in the Flying Corps, crashed 14 times. After a trip to the French Sahara as naturalist on a scientific expedition he took to writing adventure stories, a novel of African pygmy life, Toro of the Little People. The ache of War wounds made him drop writing, go home to become an inshore fisherman, try to market his invention of a collapsible...
...Senate, opposition developed quickly. Led by Messrs. Couzens, La Follette and Connally, 45 Senators (35 Democrats, 20 Republicans) signed a round-robin to "vote against any and every form of a general Sales Tax in the pending bill...