Word: beaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austrian Surprise. The announcement by Dr. Curtius in Berlin and by Dr. Schober in Vienna of their agreement last week probably surprised more than any one else Austria's boss-politician?beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, onetime Austrian Chancellor and leader of the Christian-Socialist (Catholic) party...
...days after the first reports, W. J. McDonald, supervisor of the Chugach National Forest, confirmed the discovery. He found the animal to be only 24 ft. long, resembling a huge lizard with a long tail and tapering head. He said it had a snout like a pelican's beak, a head like an elephant. He found no fur. Six feet of flesh were preserved. Foxes and Eskimo dogs had eaten the rest. Since scientists were still puzzled, part of the huge carcass was taken to Cordova. So soon as weather conditions permit, Dr. Bunnell and helpers will...
...Quarterly" here means by quarters, "martiets" are birds without beak or feet...
Most of the attacks were made at dusk or on moonlight nights. Several correspondents wrote that the birds had swooped close to their heads, had only snapped their beaks before darting away. The majority of victims, however, had actually been struck with beak or claws. Frequently the skin was painfully lacerated. One correspondent wrote that he knew a lumberjack who had suffered from a clawed neck for several months. In Louisiana, a Negro complained that an owl had gouged his eye out. The birds in one U. S. town developed a peculiar antipathy for policemen, made frequent passes at their...
Though he formally retired from politics last Spring, though he was ostentatiously in Oslo, Norway, when his henchmen upset the last Austrian Cabinet beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel received the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Great Powers again last week in the same place and manner as he used to do when Chancellor?namely: at the Ballhausplatz, famed Austrian Foreign Office...