Word: beaks
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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...
...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...