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...hurried to embrace his wife, it was apparent that he had grown old as well as famous in battle. His hair was white, his face lined. But he was still erect and turkey-cock as ever...
...superior CRIMSON aggregation overwhelmed an inferior Lampoon aggregation in Saturday's annual Crime-Lampy baseball game on Soldiers Field. Despite firm opposition by the 'Poonsters in the opening inning, the capable Plympton Street aggregation, its loins girded, soon hit its stride and overwhelmed the cock-eyed Bow Street aggregation by a score...
Every evening he pushed aside his ledgers and fled to the bars of west London-the Cock, the Crown, the Cheshire Cheese, the Café Royal-where he found his friends Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Yeats, Symons and sometimes his French idol, Poet Paul Verlaine. At the first pub he would order absinthe, then quickly jot down the verses that had swum in his head during the day. That done, he would hurry on to a small, cheap Soho restaurant called the Poland, where he conducted one of the strangest, most fruitless courtships in literary history...
...half as large) ; the German is locally known as the "Croton bug" because it first invaded the city in large numbers when holes were cut in walls for water pipes, at the time the Croton Dam was built for a civic water supply. In spite of its appetite, the cock roach's chief danger to man is not destructiveness but food contamination...
...almost a half century Osmeña, like Quezon, had dreamed of power. But the impressionable Filipinos, fascinated by Quezon's impassioned oratory, his imperious political scheming, the glitter of his presence, thought of Sergio Osmeña as a grey bird flying beside a brightly plumaged jungle cock. Osmeña accepted his defeats quietly, finally became Manuel Quezon's political friend, came with him to the U.S. as confidant and Vice President after the fall of the islands...