Word: beaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realist and a beak-nosed aristocrat, Mr. Warren cannot stomach an inscription proposed by Monsignor Ladeuze...
...contains a relief of St. Christopher with the Christ child. Around the Emperor are grouped the emblems of his sovereignty and coats of arms of the Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether-Austria, Styria, and Lombardy, together with heraldic lions and an eagle, the latter holding in his beak a ribbon with the letters A. E. I. O. U. (Austria Erit in Orbe Ultima)--the Emperor's favorite motto. His long flowing hair and delicate, refined lines of his aristocratic face heighten the ornate, romantic aspect of the whole composition. When we remember that it was during the weak...
...mythology for an international trade-mark intelligible to all nations in all languages, for Vacuum oil lubricating supply stations were dotting the earth, even to imperceptible islands of distant seas. The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds. But here a language difficulty arose. Roc sounds like rock. In German petroleum is rock-oil (Steinöl). Most unfortunately the bird of Persian mythology would not do. Medieval France was then scanned. A suitably...
...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...
...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...