Word: bird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a crashing report and the crane crumpled into the water, its wing broken. President Coolidge handed back the weapon smiling. Another Secret Service man bashed the wounded bird over the head, carried it home. The President waived the bounty...
Died. Arthur J. Lamb, oldtime writer ("Asleep in the Deep," "The Naughty Little Bird on Nellie's Hat," etc.); of an embolism; in Providence...
Papua (New Guinea), largest island of the archipelago that lies just north of Australia, like scattered shards of a frail continent, is the home of cannibals, gibbons, serpents and birds of paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees...
Frozen Eggs. Into mighty, meatpacking Armour & Co., there strayed last week the H. J. Keith Co. of Boston, dealers in dried and frozen eggs. Also into the Armour fold came a large interest in Amos Bird Co. of Shanghai, Chinese egg product concern. To become a power in the frozen egg market, Armour & Co. paid...
...Grace A. Fendler the Supreme Court in Manhattan last week awarded $781,891.10, royalties due her from The Bird of Paradise, alleged plagiarism of her play In Hawaii. Oliver Morosco, producer, Richard Walton Tully, writer, were the defendants. Morosco has recently recovered from bankruptcy, Tully's resources are undetermined. Since 1914, birthyear of the play, Author Fendler has not received a cent, is not sure she ever will...