Word: birding
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...Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken at the Morgan Senatorial inquiry (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936) in which the financier, an Edwardian figure of immense substantiality, is shown leaning forward over his broad centre of gravity and "pointing" at his inquisitors like a smart old bird...
...American widgeon, ivory billed woodpecker, red owl, frog eater, chuck will's widow, yellow billed cuckoo, whip-poor-will, and others. Audubon's early work as a young man of twenty-three along the Ohio river is shown in drawings of the belted kingfisher, red-winged blackbird, and cat bird...
Original colored drawings of birds by John J. Audubon, pioneer American naturalist, whose pictures a century ago first familiarized the world with American bird life, are shown in an exhibition at Widener...
...away from the fallen picador). But at the height of his fame & fortune, he was so badly gored in the lung that he had to quit for the season, later announced his permanent retirement. He continued to live at matador pace, scattering money like crumbs to many a hungry bird. His mistress, Marilena, was Ricardo's greatest expense and biggest trouble. When she saw there was a bottom to his purse she used all her Central American wiles to get him back into the arena. Ricardo's nerve was gone, so was his stamina; he hated the idea...
...famous and (or) notorious Nineveh Chorus, featured recently on the photo pages of Boston papers, consists of Jeanne Stern of Radcliffe, Helen Porter of Dana Hall, Julie Casay of Childe-Walker, Virginia Leach of Radcliffe, Martha Bird of the Junior League, Olivia Osberne of the Junior League and Vincent Club, and Mary Lou Walpole of Boston...