Word: beak
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...silver certificate. The same size as present dollar bills, it will be distinguished by an unfamiliar but appropriate design. On the back it will bear the well-known obverse likeness of the Great Seal of the U. S. (adopted in 1782), the eagle with E Pluribus Unum in its beak, a branch of olive in one talon, a clawful of arrows in the other. And alongside will appear the little-known reverse of the Great Seal (see cut): an unfinished pyramid dated 1776; above it, the allegorical eye of God and the words Annuit Coeptis (He favored our undertakings); below...
Wilhelmina, who has reigned longer than any other living king or queen (45 years), let it be known that she said, "These are grave times," when receiving last week her great and favorite Premier, beak-nosed Hendrikus Colijn, bald battler these many years to keep the guilder on gold...
...standards of charm, the nose has lost many of its powers. Yet in the Congo, it still plays an important part in attracting mates. The theory among the savages is that the eyes are fickle, but that once a man is nosed, all the anthropologists in Africa can't beak the spell. Where the nose has lost much is in its powers of prophecy. Time was, when our nose itched, we knew we were to hear good news be kissed by a fool, or take a long journey. Now we just call it an itch and scratch. That's civilization...
...larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology. The beak was missing...
...Rambled through a free-for-all monetary debate in which the Government was besought by M. P.'s of various factions to attempt pound-dollar stabilization. Replied the Empire's beak-nosed budget balancer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain: "[We] must wait until there is such a change of price levels as may bring the dollar and the franc into greater harmony with one another, which I understand is the policy of the United States to bring about and to which I, for one, wish all possible success...