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Hair combings to be burned, to prevent a bird from finding them and building them into a nest. Otherwise the careless comber will suffer headaches until the fledglings leave the hair-woven nest...
...night services. Every summer Dr. Reisner holds a snow service, with scrapings from an ice plant. He has held whistling services, given away apples, oranges and bread in literal demonstration of scriptural tenets. Other Broadway Temple entertainment includes newsreels, secular singers, bell-ringers, trumpeters and Mr. & Mrs. Vanderbilt Shrump, bird imitators. Before a mirror Dr. Reisner fancies he sees a resemblance between himself and George Washington; once a year he likes to dress up like the Father of his Country and preach a sermon. He has also impersonated Joshua...
...patronesses who will be in the receiving line for the dance are as follows: Mesdames Thomas H. Bilodean, Reginald W. Bird, Henry Chauncey, James B. Conant, Ethan A. Dennison, John Homans, Robert L. Hoguet, Charles W. Hubbard, Jr., Herbert Jaques, Delmar Leighton, Henry B. Prout, Samuel J. Tomasello, Henry B. Schmidt, and Roger S. Warner...
...honor, Premier Nicholas Mushanoff swore that Bulgarian Macedonians have been as mild as lambs since last June, though up to that time Bulgarian papers reported a Macedonian murder nearly every day. Last major operation was in December 1932, when a party of Macedonians, complete with rifles, pistols, bombs and bird dogs, went fowling for editors in front of the royal palace, one wounded eight people (TIME, Jan. 10 1933). Aside, Premier Mushanoff warned the Bulgarian Macedonians to be on their best behavior during the visit of Foreign Minister Jeftitch, then went to Sofia's Union Club to attend...
...lizards have since been found on a few neighboring islands, but most are on Komodo. Komodo is a volcanic island 22 mi. long and 12 mi. wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared...