Word: beaking
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...Mace from its pedestal at the right of Speaker Longworth's chair and advance upon the hotheads. Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within a half-inch of the Congressman's nose and exclaimed: "Sit down or he'll peck...
...about time that her Otto received proper publicity in Vienna, for he reaches his majority next November. She therefore staged the first full-dress Habsburg funeral in Vienna since the War. Pope Pius XI is supposed to favor the candidacies of Otto, which would account for the presence of beak-nosed, bald-headed former Prime Minister Seipel, a Monsignor. Quite unimportant was the presence of the dead man's father, Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg who recently published his piquant autobiography: From Archduke to Grocer (TIME...
...Very simply for. such an astounding creature. I shall state in my billing: 'Biggest born beast of the briny. Bearded. Booms like a bittern. Brutal beak. Bulkiest behemoth believable...
...bird with a red beak and black feathers under its wings was placed last week in. a glass case in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History...
...slightness about him. a trimness of figure that makes it hard to believe that he could have been old enough to serve as an officer in the Spanish War. Today he looks hardly older than when he was a junior partner in the St. Paul law firm of Palmer, Beak and Mitchell...