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...prevented the lynching of a negro who ventured to object when a white man held him up and took his billfold. Mr. Mencken, even as Beaumarchais before him, found this ludicrous, but, like Beaumarchais, he did not neglect to point the implicit moral, i.e., that justice was a rare bird for the declassed minority...
Chatting with the secretaries in the University Museum is sometimes profitable. The other day one of them told us a remarkable little incident. Some time ago, a student who held an Emergency Employment job was instructed, on his arrival at the Museum, to poison a large number of deceased birds, or bird skins. This he proceeded to do, consuming ten hours in the effort. When next he appeared at the scene of his labors, he was told that there was not as much poison as had been counted on, and that he was to remove all the insect deterrent that...
Practice yesterday started with a demonstration of Dartmouth plays in the cage. The Second Varsity represented the Green, which Coach Johnny Donovan scouted on Saturday. The first-stringers went up to the balcony above the playing floor of the cage to get a bird's eye of the plays and passes they will have to stop this weekend. After that practice was moved to the outside field despite the rain. Choate and Walers were excused from practice, but the entire squad was reported as physically ready for action...
...with the majority." ¶ In spite of pleas by the National Retail Dry Goods Association to move Thanksgiving up a week so that the Christmas shopping period might be lengthened. President Roosevelt announced that, as usual, the holiday would be observed the last Thursday in November. His own Thanksgiving bird was picked for him at the Chicago poultry show: a bronze, 40-lb. gobbler judged best turkey at the exhibition. Name: NRA Blue Eagle. ¶ On a brown paper bag, Steve Vasilakos, for 28 years proprietor of the popcorn stand in front of the White House, scribbled a statement...
...feed on the leeches when they are in their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds are full of choking birds. "At Stobart Lake we chased lightly afflicted birds in a boat over the bodies of thousands . . . floating upon the water in all stages of decomposition. . . . Captured birds, removed to the Inglewood government bird...