Word: swanning
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...surely unnecessary for you to distinguish between a mother and a father swan by such terms as "pen"' and "cob" . . . and was it necessary for you to call the swanlets by such an ugly word as "cygnets...
...Just let any of our Boston women catch some man "swan upping" in our parks! ... Of course at Maidenhead I was helpless, except that my blood boiled. Shame on you, TIME, for not denouncing "swan upping"! MARY ELIZABETH ROBBIN...
TIME would deplore "swan upping" at Boston, where it could not serve the picturesque purpose of distinguishing by nicked bills all cygnets not belonging to His Majesty George...
Your account of Swan-Upping on the Thames was most interesting. I was surprised to learn that such intelligent and progressive people still do such apparently silly things, tho, of course, I had heard that the British were, or seemed ta be, quite fond of things ceremonious and ritualistic. However, I won't laugh at them now. First, let British readers suggest some things which U. S. people (I know of no other adequate term for inhabitants of U.S.A., and always hope TIME will coin one) do which seem equally as foolish to the British. Of course Prohibition will...
...Sirs: You give Carroll J. Swan the title of "Lieutenant." He is Lieutenant Colonel of the reserves and was a Captain in the War of the 26th Division. He wrote a book following the War entitled My Company. Swan is a graduate of Harvard '01-one of New England's leading advertising men. . . . J. M. SWEENEY...