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Reedy, William Marion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Reedy, William Marion (1862–1920), Missouri journalist, in 1893...transformed into a weekly literary and critical magazine, and later published as Reedy's Mirror (1913–20). The Mirror was politically liberal...
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Rails
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...x201D; Species that are commonly called rails generally live in reedy marshes, and are relatively large birds with a beak, legs...very cryptic and tend to hide well in their habitat of tall, reedy marshes, so they are not often seen. One of these elusive...
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Edgar Lee Masters
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of Verse. He was active in Democratic party politics, traveled west in 1904, and in 1906 toured Europe. He contributed to Reedy's Mirror and met novelist Theodore Dreiser. Masters's next two volumes—The Blood of the Prophets (1905) and...
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wild rice
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...rice ( Oryza ). Wild rice (called also Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats) is a hardy annual with broad blades, reedy stems, and large terminal panicles. It grows best in shallow water along the margins of ponds or lakes in the N United States...
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marsh antelope
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...brown hair. The males stand up to 50 in. (125 cm) at the shoulder and weigh up to 500 lb (225 kg). They are found in reedy or grassy country but may wander several miles from water. Strong swimmers, they often take to water when pursued. The common...
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Herons
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis) is the smallest North American heron. Both of these bitterns are very cryptic in their reedy, marshy habitats. When they perceive that they are being observed by a potential predator, these birds will stand with their...
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Muskrat
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...floods, and are not usually repaired; the muskrat will instead construct a new accommodation. In optimal habitats such as reedy marshes, muskrat population densities can reach 85 animals per hectare. Sometimes, excessively large muskrat populations...
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Fields, W. C.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...character he is remembered for. A portly man with grayish blond hair, a bulbous nose, vulpine eyes, and a voice described as reedy or croaky, he clowned deadpan, with a bored, slightly haughty air. His characters were amoral and contemptuous of suckers...
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Lyon, Harris Merton
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...x2010;born author resident in New York City, where he was a journalist and critic. Sardonics (1908) contains 16 sketches and three poems; other realistic stories appeared in Graphics (1913), published by William Marion Reedy .
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Edwin Markham
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...x2014;reveal a continuing concern for the underdog but also, in the love lyrics and the flights of rhetoric, a thin reedy voice coupled with a pedestrian vocabulary. As a lecturer and literary journalist, however, Markham traveled the familiar...
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