Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London biologist who tried to learn why birds lay more eggs if kept awake after dark reported last week in the current U. S. issue of Nature that noise and jostling as well as light are sex stimulants. If Professor William Rowan's reasoning can be extended to human conduct it may provide a commentary on jamming in glaring, blaring night clubs, amusement parks, subways and country fairs. It may also explain why the filthy pigeons of Manhattan, London and Paris, and the noisy starlings of Washington are highly prolific...
...STORY OF SECRET SERVICE-Richard Wilmer Rowan-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Fat (720-page), fascinating florilegium of spies, real and apparent, "going up and down the backstairs of history" since Moses' day; busiest, softest footsteps, says Spy-Catcher Rowan, were England...
...fall of Fort Donelson, Forrest's raid on Murfreesboro, the Battle of Chickamauga. Principal characters are the Allard family, aristocratic Kentuckians. Jim, the elder son, lamed by a riding accident, stayed home; but Ned went, was captured, finally released from a Yankee prison a broken man. George Rowan married one of the Allard girls, was enjoying his favored position as aide to a handsome general when a sharpshooter got him at Chickamauga. Cousin Rives married Lucy Allard and went off to be one of Forrest's scouts. Lucy gradually learned what that meant, got almost used...
Hats went off, heads were bowed as Brother Baucom boomed a prayer. Master of Hounds John Aiken Rowan raised a Texas steer horn to his lips, blew long & loud. At this signal the hounds were loosed and, amid a great uproar of babbling dogs, roaring engines and shouting men, women & children, the whole assembly moved off into the brush. Thus began :he 1936 field trials of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association, biggest "wolf hunt" in U. S. history...
...book, Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal Ney was not executed, but taught school in Rowan County, N. C., and lies buried at the above mentioned place. He also said that, during his lifetime, he visited Peter Stuart Ney in North Carolina. My father was pastor of the Third Creek Church, and, as a child, I knew intimately several people who were pupils...