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Word: beaks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, bald, beak-nosed former Chancellor of the Austrian Republic, sets out to upset a cabinet he succeeds. Last week this most potent of Austrian politicians was, characteristically, in Oslo, Norway, when the Austrian cabinet he has been working on all summer actually fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Success for Seipel | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Mace! The Mace! | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Double-Eagle | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peak Sneaking | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: The Gull | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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