Word: swanning
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...Swan Upping" Flayed...
...wish your correspondent could have been with me at Maidenhead on the Thames when he wrote TIME'S disgraceful story about "swan upping" (TiME, Aug. 5). I would have boxed his ears, as I should like to box yours...
...only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave almost a cheer for that swan...
Last week there were reverberations. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, retired (Radio Corp. of America) as 2nd Division Commander, rumbled judicially: "The placing of a memorial by another division almost at the gateway of Belleau Wood will distort history for posterity." Back came Lieut. Carroll J. Swan, president of the "Yankee Division Club": "It is absurd for the Marines to say we are taking any of the glory from them. . . . We were just as regular as they, and more so. . . . It is rather late in the game now to criticise. . . . They are the greatest bunch of advertisers in the world...
...Swan-upping, though terrifying to swans and painful to Swanmasters, is highly appreciated by Britons who live near the Thames. All last week crowds gathered by bridges and tow-paths to watch the edifying spectacle of scarlet-coated rowers in flagged and painted barges furiously chasing broods of hissing swans back and forth across the river. No useful or practical result whatsoever is achieved by nicking and classifying the swans, since afterward they simply go on swimming, breeding and hissing on the Thames...