Word: vineyard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stuart Chase, far behind the times, does not report that the last of this species was given up for dead in 1932. Three survivors remained on Martha's Vineyard until 1928, dwindled to a ten-year-old heath cock that regularly appeared at its traditional courting field, ''boomed" and cockled in a forlorn effort to attract a mate. Efforts to mate it with the prairie chicken proving unsuccessful, the lonely fowl abandoned its solitary courtship in the spring of 1930, was seen for the last time in March...
...Front Populaire" under the leadership of lean Socialist Leon Blum, who some believe may be next Premier of France. A paradox himself, cultivated Socialist Blum is a teetotaler whose constituency is at Narbonne, in the Department of Aude, centre of the cheap red wine district where the vineyard workers are their own best customers. Fortunately for Socialist Blum's delicate digestion, his re-election was assured when French Royalists nearly severed his carotid artery nine weeks ago. Free wine flowed in Narbonne last week but Candidate Blum let voters drink alone...
...fruitful corner of the Lord's vineyard is rich old Trinity Parish, which embraces eight Episcopal churches in Manhattan. Trinity Church gave the Diocese of New York its present Bishop, Rt. Rev. William Thomas Manning. Trinity's Chapel of the Intercession provided Bishop Manning's cathedral with its present Dean Milo Hudson Gates. Last week another Trinity man, Rev. Dr. Wallace John Gardner, vicar of the Chapel, was offered advancement. The Diocese of New Jersey (34,567 communicants) elected him Bishop Coadjutor...
Jehovah's Witnesses call themselves "remnants" ("unworthy strivers after the kingdom of the Lord"), "Jonadabs" ("workers in the Lord's vineyard"), "pioneers" (those who have dropped all other work except that of Jehovah), and "publishers" (those who do Jehovah's work along with their own). Last Sunday, remnants, Jonadabs, pioneers and publishers, to say nothing of the thousands of plain Bible Students, listened bug-eyed in Washington Auditorium to a speech by Judge Rutherford broadcast and rebroadcast to the ends of the earth by radio, wire and wireless at a cost claimed to be $200,000. They...
...last survivor of the race of heath hens died in 1932 on Martha's Vineyard (TIME, April 11, 1932). Cause: overshooting, grass fires. The Eskimo curlew was extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market hunters killing nesting birds. The petrel and flicker of Guadalupe Island vanished about 1906. Cause: cats, goats. The Carolina and Louisiana parakeets were never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included...