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...Since Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1837-1927), who finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect, if you have to fight...
...fighting spirit in the centre of the pit. Then, at a command from the referee, the handlers returned to opposite sides of the pit, crouched down and, at the command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down in a swirl of feathers, the lightning death strokes of their steel gaffs* too quick for the human...
Bull Fiddler. Koussevitzky has taken few of life's bumps. One good reason has been Natalya Konstantinovna Koussevitzkaya, his pleasant, portly, beak-nosed Russian wife. Koussevitzky is her career. Once a sculptress, she has not only spent the best part of her life smoothing out her husband's path; she also played an important part in putting him on the path in the first place...
...crossbows and steel-tipped wooden bolts, the Thierfelders, Dietzes, Dreschers-now butchers, knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped...
...editor of the London Criterion and the most gift-stricken poet of his time is a tall man with a large, pale face, gentle, cavernous dark eyes, a Roman beak, cub ears and a meditative mouth. He has a famous aversion to being photographed and never until this spring had he sat for an important portrait in oils. Last week the completed Portrait of T. S. Eliot by Artist-Author Wyndham Lewis suddenly became celebrated. It was refused a place in the Royal Academy's annual exhibition of British Art. And in protest against this act the Academy...