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...some who grew to 18-and 20-foot lengths developed rounded bills, like a giant duck's, to fill their monstrous wrinkled paunches. Certain species, having laid in arsenals of teeth, were meateaters and not in the least squeamish about devouring their peaceful relatives. In time, one sensible clan specialized in defense, going always on all fours, with armor plate on a humpy back and a flange of skull spread back fanwise to protect the neck. On the forehead grew three horns; the upper lip hardened and hooked downward in a terrible beak...
Showing documentary evidence in the Outlook, Dr. Barton indicated that the Cardinal had meant no harm, that he had merely confused two Abrahams of the Lincoln clan, two first cousins...
...everyone knows, numerous members of the rapidly prolific and fabulously wealthy du Pont clan dwell together in a residential park near Wilmington, Del. They are distinguished as a family by a lack of ostentation, a generous solicitude for their retainers' welfare, and an astute dominance in national business (for example, General Motors) and Delaware politics...
...seeks inevitably to rationalize about it. What is it that inspires middle-aged men to return at considerable expense of time, money and dignity, in order to manifest clan loyalty in various and curious manners? And what is this clan loyalty, to an institution of the past, more vital and more enduring than any loyalty Americans have ever professed? Our cities and our states are not for celebrations, nor are our industries or our religions, but the memory of a college fills American streets every June with fanatics, who even dress like the Bantu natives of central Africa...
...there is anything that guides a vagabond, and this hypothesis may easily be challenged, it is his instinct. If he allowed his conscious self to act as rudder, he would no longer be a vagabond, and as a self-respecting member of the clan myself, I feel that that would be a catastrophe. All of which suggests one reason why I am going to Emerson J at 9 o'clock this morning to hear Dr. Prescott talk in Education B on instincts...