Word: wildwoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President Coolidge summered at Black Hills he was presented with a white collie puppy. Diana of Wildwood, which he preferred to call Calamity Jane after Martha ("Calamity") Jane Canary Burke, famed Dakota saloonkeeper and roisterer, admirer of Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side she lies, who nursed the miners and, according to Authoress Coolidge, "softened the rigors of pioneer life with the milk of human kindness...
...Strictly speaking there were no pears but delicious fraisettes des bois, tiny wildwood strawberries...
...Wildwood golfers were not amused. They caused the golf hawk's capture and petitioned their directors to destroy both bird and nest. It was then that this flatland fable became historical...
...Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest. Millions of Americans have never seen a fish hawk. In the interest of all these and all outdoor lovers, including those who fill your course, spare this bird...
Less fortunate than the Wildwood osprey were the grackles of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Lacking a mediator, these birds, noisy, gregarious, were last week slaughtered in hundreds by police shotguns to please Mount Vernon slugabeds...