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freckled forms she comes; and when from the beak of one, the still living beetle has dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...beak he bears a swallow. . . . The grey falcon comes to Tsar Lazar at Kossovo and says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heaven and Earth in the Balkans | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...crudest bits of writing ever to appear in your notoriously unkind pages, which must set a record of some sort. Rather a cheap record, however, because the officially snubbed Windsors are quite defenseless; hardly fair game for your newshawk's acid-tipped beak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...most airplanes on the ground, looked terrible. Tailless as a Manx cat, it squatted on a three-wheeled undercarriage. Its wing tips (span 38 feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Flying Manta | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...artist who painted them is a little, beak-nosed, birdlike Italo-American named Athos Menaboni who lives in Atlanta, where he takes time off from jobs as a muralist to range through the Georgia swamps and forests, hunting birds with a paintbrush. In six years Painter Menaboni has made 250 paintings of 97 native birds, says he has 150 more to do before using up the species Georgia has to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Menaboni's Birds | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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