Word: owl
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...overboiled yam. He lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...
...others are there, too--Albert the Alligator, Porky, who "don't like anybody 'cept one crittur whom I dislikes less than most," Churchy la Femme, Howlin' Owl, Deacon Mushrat, the Rackety Coon Chile, and the rest of the too-human animals that people the South's fairest swamplands...
Peace once again abounds at Waban; the Wellesley owl has been returned...
Last Friday night at a mixer held in the Psi Sigma house, someone took the society's mascot, a disgruntled owl. A furor immediately broke loose. Honor society teas were on tap and it would look bad for Psi Sigma if it had no mascot. One source said the administration was contemplating giving up mixers. Its return saved the longstanding friendly relationship between Wellesley and Harvard from extinction...
Previously, only petty stealings such as ash trays, hoop races, and grass skirts have been reported. If the owl is not returned however, Wellesley threatens to hold no more mixers. It may even cancel teas. All it wants to know, obviously, is, "Hoo has the Owl...