Word: taxidermist
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...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...
...Catalina Island, Mrs. S. M. Douglas caught a handsome swordfish, wanted to mount it in her boudoir. Mrs. Douglas took her catch to Mrs. Charles Parker in Los Angeles, had it painted a delicate pink "to match the drapes." Taxidermist...
...Ephraim, Utah, youngsters found the body of a 2-year-old boy, skilfully preserved, stuffed by an expert taxidermist and buried in a hillside...
Died. Charles Livingston Bull, 57, animal painter, naturalist, taxidermist, friend and exploring colleague of the late Carl Akeley, Roy Chapman Andrews, William Beebe; as the result of a spinal injury received several years ago; in Oradell, N. J. Theodore Roosevelt once said: "Bull is the only man who can put legs on four sides of an animal and make it look natural...