Word: bird
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect to W. R. Slaughter; very few expert field shots lead birds but the gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird...
...Angeles, one W. E. Praudweine, knife in hand, set after a large turkey. The bird, angered, kicked the knife into Praudweine's arm, severing an artery. Then it leaped upon the bleeding man, viciously tore his shirt to tatters...
...Young Chang" Hsueh-Liang and his late, great father "Old Chang" Tso-Lin. She wants above everything to prevent the great powers from intervening in her bailiwick. Again appropriate last week was a famed cartoon, the Magnum Opus of Shanghai's North China Daily Herald. It shows a bespectacled bird which greatly resembles Prince Chichibu of Japan perching with a wink above the apple of Japanese eyes, Manchuria...
...scampering, squeaking, howling, yowling, meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian...
Married. Oliver Morosco, owner of Morosco Theatres (Manhattan, Los Angeles), producer (Peg O' My Heart, Bird of Paradise) ; and Helen McRuer, legitim-actress; in San Francisco...