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...Mexican road runner is a long-beaked, shaggy-feathered bird about the size of a partridge. The road runner is death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feathered Matador | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...squads have both gained only 8 points against Princeton, outcome of the match is a toss-up. Meanwhile undefeated Yardlings pit their strength against the Eli Freshmen in their concluding match of the season. HARVARD YALE Ross 118-pound Mallon Ach 126-pound Hanman Page 135-pound W. Bird Barnes 145-pound Mann Kidder 155-pound J. Bird Daughaday 165-pound Woodland Harkness 175-pound Clarke Glendinning Unlimited Pickett

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS FACE YALE IN CLOSE TILT TODAY | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Seven years ago, in Washington's Pan American Union, diplomats blushed almost as red as the Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...means "Bird" in Albanian and King Zog I met his fiancée in his brightest gold-lace plumage. Apart from the facts that many a prominent Albanian family has sworn a blood feud against King Zog, that he has almost ruined his throat by oversmoking, until at one time he could talk only in guttural wheezes, His Majesty is a highly eligible bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Zog's Choice | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower pouring down on her golden hair. Once past this cryptic collection, visitors entered a long corridor lined with completely nude manikins, masked with bird cages, sprouting electric light bulbs, spotted here and there with snails, pins, bats and magnets. Then each visitor was handed a free flashlight and ushered into the darkness of a big, square room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Super | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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