Word: birding
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References to the Ibis, bird of doubtful antecedents which currently disgraces the steeple of the Lampoon building, was made in the hope that when George reaches maturity he will be pitted against the Ibis "in a fight-to-the-finish," in order to "banish conclusively the name of 'Ibis' from the civilized world...
...going to have to pay through the nose. Spreading like bird shot, income taxes would hit more & more U.S. citizens. The 7,818,000 persons who filed returns in calendar 1940, the 15,000,000 in 1941 will be some 22,100,000 in 1942 and still more if personal exemptions are again lowered. By Feb. 1 every one of the 36,000,000 motor vehicles in the U.S. must bear a windshield sticker signifying that the motorist has paid a $2.09 tax for the privilege of using a car. Then after five months the motorist must...
...Keep away from bird lovers, fellows, or you'll be standing on a little wooden pedestal with a label containing your full name in Latin. ... I don't want to alarm you fellows, but there are only about twenty of you alive as I write these lines, and there are more than 200 of you in American museums and in collections owned by Ivory-billed Woodpecker enthusiasts...
...seen that in the movies.) About Dreiser and Dostoevski and Proust and Flaubert and Sterne and someone named George Borrow. Vag felt dumber and dumber. He hadn't known there were so many damn authors in the world he hadn't read. About Gide. Vag thought he was the bird who wrote the French 6 textbook, but he wasn't sure. About the young Radical Poets of England and Gerald Manley Hopkins...
...Bird...