Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squirrel Chowder. If the astronomers had been simply seeking to put the center in a particularly American rural setting, they could hardly have chosen better. The low, hickory-wooded hills around the town were once the home of Winnebago and Pottawatomi Indians. The region's first settler was Thaddeus Morehouse, who opened a tavern to sell venison and whisky (at 25? a gallon...
...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...
...used to throw them out," Whipple said; "but now I keep them under a special file labeled 'squirrel food'". "Acceptance by present day teaching professors is not important," says Maciver...
...said one citizen, "he's just another squirrel in the Forest Theater. Why don't they leave him alone?" That is what the council decided last week to do. "Why," said the mayor's wife in retrospect, "Duxbury was just one of those harmless souls who's neither a Democrat nor a Republican...
...when he died of asthma and T.B. in 1948; his Montparnasse friends remember him as an overpowering gay blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold, whose bones and muscles were as clearly delineated as in anatomical drawings and whose eyes were black and full of misery. His landscapes...