Word: beaked
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...football teams were weak and its joys unathletic. For the tentacles of the Harvard Athletic Association have searched out high school material on which it is glutting itself, and growing. And with the passing of the losing team has come the University's loss of independence from the beak and encroaching paws of the Leviathan H.A.A...
...Sumeria. The staff in the hand is a later addition; no one knows whether the figure actually carried a staff, an offering, or a weapon. The pack on the back resembles the wings and tail of a great bird, and the pointed beard can be taken for a beak. The girdle is an ancient Middle Eastern symbol of power, worn by lion-strangling heroes in the bloody days of Assurnasirpal. The powerfully striding thighs are molded with an easy naturalism virtually unknown until the time of the Greeks, yet the cylindrical form and spellbound air of the entire figure...
...idea he was going to Sing Sing!" Mette Gad was a Danish civil servant's daughter, a handsome, white-skinned Juno (Gauguin favored husky women) who met her fate on a jaunt to Paris in 1873. Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling sway of a seaman. He had spent part of his childhood in Peru (where his mother took...
...sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark in his beak for a brush, mixes the charcoal with saliva, which is forced through the sides of his bill to be spread with the piece of bark. He thus applies gesso or paint to the side walls of his bower...
...while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp, the lucky Madrileno would swallow it, claws, beak...