Word: albatross
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...ever was my favorite. I only said that it is a better limerick than the Pelican-which isn't saying much. I never esteemed either of them. But, having been pursued by the darned bird for 40 years as Mr. Coleridge's old sailor was by the albatross, I am certainly entitled to have it and the other one appear no worse than they are. And your version of the Albino appears worse than anything I have seen-which is saying a great deal. It really goes...
G.O.P. Chairman Herbert Brownell saw in Maine's voting a "virtual guarantee" of nationwide victory. Maine's Republican Senator Owen Brewster found a moral: "Mr. Hillman is an albatross hung about the Democratic neck." The P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman explained simply: "Maine is a Republican state...
...moment came in the early morning of April 21, 1918. He had been in almost daily aerial combat on the western front for 14 months. His nerves were dangerously taut. Said he: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks]. ..." That morning he swooped unseen behind an Albatross, bagged the famed, ferocious Red Knight of Germany, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
With half their machines still unpowered, Derry's men turned to, repaired their first ship, the Albatross, She was around their necks for days. Four times she stood out to sea, then came back for more repairs before the base finally and happily saw her waddle away into the mist...
...Tauchnitz was merged with its most powerful rival, the Albatross Modern Continental Library, managed by John Holroyd-Reece, onetime British cavalry officer, founder of the arty Pegasus Press and the Pantheon Series. He controlled his multilateral book business through Publishing Holding Co., with main offices in Paris, branches in London and Leipzig...