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Unlike his mother, his wife, the one-time secretary whom he married when he was 50, disapproved of his life. Especially was she provoked when he entertained his hobo wards in their parlor, cooked them mulligan which he, a vegetarian, would not eat, in the fireplace. She left him two years ago. got her final divorce decree only a fortnight ago, now lives in Los Angeles, hopeless of getting a dower share in his inheritance...
Largest of North American terrestrial rodents, the porcupine is, however, a highly destructive emergency food supply to have wandering unmolested through the land. It is a voracious vegetarian, not at all fastidious. Besides all manner of plants, buds and the inner barks of trees, it will gnaw at men's cabins, canoes and food containers, especially where any salty supplies have been stored...
...disagreeable bird is the starling. Small, dark, impudent and noisy, its only commendable trait is a fondness for potato bugs. Most dismaying is its inexhaustible enthusiasm for reproduction. Vegetarian more often than insectivorous, starlings strip cherry trees, peck at strawberries, punch holes in lettuce leaves. Their voices are as rough as crows; they fight constantly among themselves. A nuisance already in many a U. S. town, starlings had by last week become a pest in the national capital. Washington citizens wrote letters to the newspapers. It seemed only a matter of days until some starling would visit an indignity upon...
...London the fact that the House of Commons was in recess, with the Prime Minister and every statesman of consequence away on vacation, caused the grave and startling news from India to be received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose...
...This Corner: Slender, snowy bearded George Bernard Shaw, vegetarian friend of James Joseph Tunney...