Word: swans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...