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...soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile, the beak of Hannibal's galley drifting into Carthage harbor as he returns defeated from Italy...
Stout, heavy-jawed, small-eyed Viscount Rothermere sat on a front bench at the justice's left while his attorneys, headed by tall, beak-nosed King's Counsel Sir William Jowitt, vigorously charged that the plaintiff had no moral right to bring into court as evidence confidential letters, some of which they say she took off her employer's desk without his knowledge. Counsel added feelingly that Lord Rothermere had no idea that she kept photostats of highly confidential material at any time...
...them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call of a flicker, remembered the flicker's tattoo on a tree, gave a perfect rendition of it by drumming with its beak on the top of its box. "To my mind," observed the bemused scientist, "this is one of the most remarkable instances of mimicry, since it has demanded an entirely new [for a starling] method of mechanical sound production...
...knees, Charles Miller gazed down into its reeds. A quarter mile away something moved. Charles Miller's blood froze. Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind legs, its small forelegs dangling, hissed roaringly, shot its snaky neck in his direction and slithered out of sight. Concluding that his rifle would be "about as useful as citronella...
...Wesleyan College Conference on U. S. Foreign Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...