Word: beaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightness about him. a trimness of figure that makes it hard to believe that he could have been old enough to serve as an officer in the Spanish War. Today he looks hardly older than when he was a junior partner in the St. Paul law firm of Palmer, Beak and Mitchell...
...also called "Puffin Island." Both half and whole puffins bear the likeness of Martin Coles Harman, Esq., London merchant, who bought Puffin Island in 1925 and plays at being its king. On the "tails" side of a puffin is the head of a puffin (sea bird with a parrotlike beak and white cheeks). Puffin Islanders also have puffin stamps. red and green, in puffin and half-puffin de nominations, each having a handsome steel engraving of a puffin perched on a rock...
...valet patted him into diplomatic uniform, adjusted the cross of the Legion of Honor on his chest, sprayed just the merest squeeze of perfume. His secretary handed him a crisp official envelope blazoned with the eagles of Rumania. His military chauffeur, his gold-frogged footman, his glistening, beak-nosed Renault limousine completed the splendiferous translation of M. Jean Herbette from the French Embassy to the Soviet Foreign Office. There he was angrily awaited by a plump, loosely-clad Russian, genial among friends but well able to growl and play the bear...