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...When he talks about his work his deep-set blue eyes burn with an icy fire. He walks prodigious distances through the city streets. His most valued friends are the New York Public Library's somnolent pigeons. A life-long bachelor, Dr. Tesla is tall, spare, erect, parchment-skinned, beak-nosed. The mustache he once wore is gone...
...first month, he counted 45. His bill charged him for 67, one more than his flat-rate allowance. Dr. Smahl complained. The telephone company at first cut his rate for extra calls in half. As officials became more familiar with Dr. Smahl's triangular face, beady eyes and beak nose, they grew less sympathetic...
...huge white trap set by God. Through field glasses a Coast Guard lookout watched one try to take off from an ice floe. Vainly it beat the air with its long wings; one webbed foot was frozen fast. Soon the gull gave up, bent its sharp, hooked beak, sawed off the trapped leg and flew away. Other Coast Guardsmen last week found many a thin pinkish gull leg stuck upright...
...because the great interests had an undue influence on the formation of his policy. It backed down because it was making pretensions to something which it did not have, and something which, if it had been insisted upon, would have blown it out of Washington in ten days, beak, wings, and placards. Whatever tinge of liberalism the blue eagle may have had, it was the old bird, perched safely on the rights of private property and the sanctity of parliamentary government...
...next three years, announced beak-nosed British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, the British taxpayer will make good Newfoundland's budgetary deficit as a "free gift"-expected to total ?2,000,000 ($10,300,000 at current exchange). Later the great island's debt will be amortized through a sinking fund...