Word: tasmanian
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...public opinion has reduced cautious Joe Lyons' majority in Parliament, private industry has increased his progeny at home. When the penny-pinching Tasmanian became Premier of Australia three years ago he boasted nine children. Now he has eleven...
...only not invited to stay at the White House but also refused an audience by the President in spite of the fact that her affectionate disposition was attested by all acquaintances on her arrival at the Capital, a rufous-bellied wallaby, sent to Mr. Coolidge by a Tasmanian admirer, was shipped direct to the Washington zoo with the President's request that she be taken care of. She was given temporary quarters in the antelope house, although not related to them...
...attitude exists with regard to Negro music. Of course, both Indian music and the Ethiopian characteristics in Negro music are utterly foreign to Caucasian Americans, and the use of such a base for the music of the U. S. is about as reasonable as the use of Chinese or Tasmanian music. Still the very exoticism of the idea has its attraction, and the reasons...
Bandicoots, Fruit Pigeons, Tasmanian Devils...
...bison. A collection of more than 1,100 specimens of Australian mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians has arrived in charge of Harry Craven, and will be mounted in a special Australian hall. It contains skins and skeletons of climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel, the fruit pigeon of Rapa, red-tailed tropic bird, shearwater and others. Every island group...