Word: beaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ender bids for Dictatorship!" His attempt to form a Cabinet promptly failed. So did other attempts by other Austrian statesmen last week. Even bald, beak-nosed, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, boss of the powerful Christian Socialist party, failed after trying until 2:30 a. m. to form a Cabinet...
...tutors who supervise outside work, they must advance through a series of divisions, a new one every term, until the course is finished. One may complete one's course at any time during the year: there is no graduation. But at the end of the term the "Head Beak" (beak = master) delivers a Leaving Address and presents each graduate with a Leaving Book. Head Beak of Eton, and perhaps Head Beak of all British Beaks...
...Canterbury Cathedral. (But his salary of more than ?5,000 is greater than a dean's living.) His students admire his strong face and square shoulders (he played football at Marlborough). His fine, sonorous voice commands their rapt attention at every Leaving Address. Like most British schoolmen, Head Beak Alington is a versatile but chiefly intramural scholar. England knows well his "jolly good remarks" on all subjects. Samples: "I believe our taste in some matters is not as good as ihat of other nations, for example our homes, which are exceedingly ugly. . . . No class of Englishmen have a monopoly...
...crawled out to do a tenth-story window of San Francisco's Rochester building one day last week, he found a falcon's nest on an upper ledge. A thorough cleaning nan, he swept it away. Down plunged sticks, straw and some squeaking nestlings. Down, too, with beak and talons at Victor Nave's face plunged the mother hawk, her mate hovering near with angry cries. Victor Nave, his face streaming blood, clung to the window ledge as the birds dashed at him again & again. At last he loosed his hold, steadied himself, bashed...
Demands for his protection brought forth numerous writers who pointed out that while kookaburra had been observed to seize a snake in his beak, fly with it to a great height and drop it,* there was no certainty the snake was a live one or that this was kooka's method of snakassination or that kooka was doing anything but playing...