Word: flocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the main events, visitors watched an exhibition of sheepherding by three Border collies, trained by Luke Pasco, who, blind from five to ten, was led about his father's farm by a Border collie. With neatness and dispatch the dogs split, drove, penned a small flock of bewildered sheep. Cracked New York's ex-Mayor James John Walker (on hand to follow Irish terriers): "This sheepherding may become very popular around town. It might be a particularly good idea for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...
After being revived with bread crumbs and a glass of water, the hen spent the whole day in the office and then left in the evening with Mr. Hardy. Mr. Hardy has recently moved to Randolph where he already has a flock of chickens. This newest addition, he says, is an excellent specimen of a Plymouth Rock...
...Another British bishop believed by his flock to be blaming himself into something like nervous prostration over Windsor last week, was the Rt. Rev. A. W. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, England. It was he who preached the first Anglican sermon critical of King Edward VIII. This British newsorgans used as their excuse for abandoning their conspiracy of silence about Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14, 1936, et seq.). According to friends of Dr. Blunt last week "his nerves have been badly shaken"; he recently took to his bed when scheduled to be presented to King George & Queen Elizabeth; and this week...
...snug and dry as Most Rev. Nicholas Kedroff, their Archbishop, officiated at a service celebrating the Cathedral's 35th birthday.* Pungent incense swirled, Russian prelates' vestments gleamed in the candlelight during the long service in which Archbishop Kedroff, whose 35th birthday it was also, preached to his flock in Russian and English...
...standing. Father Balaban's bond was set at $40,000. He went to jail, since his congregation not only declined to raise the bond but ousted him as pastor. The U. S. head of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Bishop Zivoin Ristanovich, suspended Father Balaban, advised his onetime flock to "keep faith, remain quiet, and pray for a just ending of this shocking occurrence...