Word: owl
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Claude Gernade Bowers of Manhattan, journalist, political historian (The Tragic Era) was pronounced persona grata at Madrid. Owl-eyed Mr. Bowers keynoted the 1928 Democratic Convention ("To your tents. O Israel...
...Extremely interesting articles are punctuated with obnoxious and sarcastic references such as "Big-chinned Mr. Roosevelt," "Big-nosed Ogden L. Mills," "Long-eared Mr. Reed," "Owl-eyed Mr. This," "Widemouthed Mr. That," and so on. What do you find of value in such unwarranted and undignified commentary methods...
...their feathers are caught by the sticky seed pods. The more they struggle, the tighter they get gummed up. A resident of New Plymouth, N. Z., named J. Wheeler has a birdcatcher tree which has trapped hundreds of small birds. Last week it killed its largest victim, a brown owl which natives call the rum. Englishmen the Morepork...
...Owl-eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...Owl Club...