Word: clawingly
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...animals loved variously. With the emu, the Australian ostrich, it was the males who cared for the children, guarding them against their morose mothers. The leopardess flirted by flicking her tail in the face of her mate until he sprang with fang and claw, snarling, whirling. The giraffes, a bull and two cows loved daintily, with acute tremblings. Lions "laughed and kissed in their delight." Then "I heard the song of the ape-man . . . [it] resounded in powerful alternations, Aw-Aw-Aw-H-u-u-uh, as tremendous as the lions' roar. It was the song of primitive life...
...Washington last week for their 49th triennial convention was hierarchy. Nominally the bishops are co-equal with John Gardner Murray of Maryland as presiding bishop. But a growing faction of Episcopalians love regimentation. Particularly the Anglicans among them talk of creating archbishops. Others oppose them tooth and claw. Of this denominational stress little appeared when the convention opened last week and little of anything else. The time was spent shaking hands and preparing for contest of the next week...
...featherweight champion. His name was Andre Routis; he had just completed 15 rounds of infighting against spry Tony Canzoneri. Frenchmen fight with their feet, it is said; but Routis had held his elbows pointed in front of him and his gloves near his ears as he moved in to claw Canzoneri's belly. Canzoneri, after winning the first rounds, had been gradually gutted in this routisserie; a game fighter, he had tired himself in last minute weight making...
...must be all very discouraging. At times the Claw, or the Blue Pencil, or whoever the chief inquisitor is, must slump back in his chair and say: "After all, what is 'great'? It is fair to the members of the Crime Club, is it fair to posterity for me to sit here and select the 'great'? Man is fallible. What if some mute, inglorious, but potential Has Rohmer is smothered beneath my own relish of Mary Roberts Rinehart? When my last manuscript is read, and I meet the Great Judge of the manuscript of life, shall I have made...
...also announced by the retiring board that in the future, emblems would be given to all the pilots in the club. The emblem is in the form of an eagle grasping a propeller in its claw, modeled upon a gold pendant...