Word: beak
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Received with complete apathy an announcement by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that, despite the boasted British Treasury surplus, His Majesty's Government chose to welsh on their War-debt payment due the U. S. last week.* Snorted Liberal David Lloyd George: "I should have thought it was not altogether wise to boast to your creditor how much better off you are than he when you have not paid his bill...
Charles Dana Gibson, a huge man with a bald head, an eagle beak and a Gladstone collar, has admitted that his Gibson Girl was a composite picture of the three famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House of Commons. Sister Nora is the present Mrs. "Lefty" Flynn. The Gibson Man wearing the stiff straw hat and a high collar up to his bulbous chin was a fairly accurate portrait of Richard Harding Davis...
Professor May, a dapper, blond, beak-nosed man in his middle thirties, signaled his assistant who drew a curtain behind the stage, revealing the massive control cabinets to which the robot was wired...
When a woman with a great beak of a nose (macrorrhinia) and no more chin than a rabbit (microgenia), pays a plastic surgeon to beautify her, the obvious procedure would be for the surgeon to graft upon the chin what he removes from the nose. However, the logic of such an operation seems to have occurred to only one plastic surgeon in all the last decade's welter of face-cutting. Dr. Gustave Aufricht of Manhattan, who has transferred 21 big noses to 21 little chins, last week laid claim to this originality in the American Journal of Surgery...
...prairie chicken dance to be a myth. It is a mating demonstration, performed in early Spring. The birds gather on an open grassy spot at early morning. The males strut back & forth, raising the tail and neck feathers, puffing the sides of the neck into little orange balloons. The beak is closed, but the air blown into the crop helps to produce a tooting noise...