Word: taxidermist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain got in touch with a woman naturalist attached to a Cape Province museum, and she in turn summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...
...German Opera Company in 1931. As principal protagonist in one of the finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and pounded his anvil with energy and musicianship, peeled the armor from sleeping Brunnhilde (Marjorie Lawrence) with a taxidermist's skill. Vocally he wavered once or twice, but he lived up to the excellent reports of his ability which had leaked out from rehearsals...
...Founder Ward from Alsace, and who will mount any skeleton from a humming bird to a mastodon. Humming bird skeletons once cost $25, but Preparator Kirchoff now turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering the biology department gather much dust, few orders...
...Freehold the party paused for luncheon, just two miles short of the best hamburg stand between Newark and Cape May. Tearing through Toms River, but not fast enough to become enmeshed in the speed traps just south of that place or embroiled with the neighborhood's notoriously strict taxidermist-justice of the peace, the Valiant reached Beachwood, stopped for the day. Actual driving time: 6:31:24. Average speed: 11.11 m.p.h...
Sculptor Barnard was born in Bellefonte, Pa., started life as a taxidermist. Starving in Paris, he earned the jealous admiration of Auguste Rodin when he was a student in his twenties. With his chisel he has made at various times enormous sums of money. He once estimated that his Lincoln statues brought him over $260,000. Three of his countless pieces give him a secure place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once...