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...Then, while the happy bears frolicked among the blossoming foamcups, the Guzzlenots descended upon them. The Guzzlenots were dour fowls with shark teeth and clanked a mean blue beak. Their feet were wide and webbed, their necks rubbery and curving. They could not abide the Staggerbears with their crescent smile and ruddy, joyful blossoming noses, their boozy roars and capers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Staggerbear & Guzzlenot | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...What about this rumor regarding Pegasus?" suggested the reporter but her reply convinced him of the inadequacy of his vocabulary to cope with the situation, and he hasilly took his departure, salvaging such of his copy as he could from the enraged lady's beak and claws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Essenz von Bierschaum, Feathered Feminine Editor of the Advocate, to Manage Candidates--Has Choice Vocabulary | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton, Va. Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some 50 feet. A row of trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Yellow Giant | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...title poem of her new volume is a narrative, in couplets of prodigious tune and cacophony, of a crow whose beak was shot away by an Indian arrow. So marvelously could he then sing that universal applause shook the marshlands. The scrub oaks roared, the cattails clicked, The bumblebees lay down and kicked. A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...relatives. In time, one sensible clan specialized in defense, going always on all fours, with armor plate on a humpy back and a flange of skull spread back fanwise to protect the neck. On the forehead grew three horns; the upper lip hardened and hooked downward in a terrible beak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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