Word: bird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dead Bird. Railways, roads, steamships and sewers are signs of civilization, but they cost money. Last week, swart Ahmed Bey Zogu Mati, King of Albania, made an effective yet inexpensive gesture toward westernizing his troubled kingdom by decreeing that in future all of his subjects must give up the old Mohammedan custom of taking the name of the town or village in which they live, and adopt good European names. Setting the fashion, Albania's King dropped the village name of Mati, dropped the u from Zogu (u in Albanian means "bird") and adopted the simple, resounding title...
Heads. The hatter deals with heads as much as with hats, and many a famed head, including the heads of 23 U. S Presidents, has been protected and ornamented with Knox hats. The hatter, of course, takes a bird's-eye view of heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part...
...Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house is being shown this week at the rooms of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art: When the first rumors of its marvels began to circulate in Cambridge, there was more cynicism and discountenance than even at Brancusi's Golden--Bird, or at the Modern French pictures. Consider a house which is primarily a machine to live in, which can be manufactured in mass, assembled at service stations and delivered in 24 hours, costing as a minimum $500 a ton. Its translucent watts is of casein, its inflatable doors and floors, its collapsible mast, its bathroom...
When hatched and grown, they developed into a little five-inch burnished cock, which shone like a jewel or a bird of paradise, and a more sober but exquisite hen. These two, Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. Each knew its name, and would run from the flock when its white-haired keeper called, and, sitting upon his hand or shoulder, would show queer signs of affection, not hesitating even to crow...
John Drinkwater, English poet-playwright (Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln), arrived in the U. S. last week to see the opening of his latest play and first comedy, Bird in Hand, on Broadway (see p. 16). Waylaid by ship-news reporters, Author Drinkwater said: 1) That he would fight Prohibition if it threatened England; 2) That the U. S. has no recent or contemporary figure dramatically as large as Lee or Lincoln, although "Woodrow Wilson might make a good play;" 3) That talking cinema shows are not worth talking about...