Word: cygnet
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...early, or stays on just a touch longer, can make a dramatic difference in the formation of the embryo. Swans, for example, have more neck vertebrae than chickens and thus longer necks. That is because the Hox genes responsible for making neck bones stay on longer in the unhatched cygnet than in the unhatched chick...
...Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Knicks in a single season? (Organist Gladys Gooding.) Who was Bram Stoker's most infamous character? (Dracula.) What's the only country crossed by both the equator and Tropic of Capricorn? (Brazil.) What's a newly hatched swan called? (A cygnet.) Who portrayed Tonto on TV? (Jay Silverheels...
...England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will and a humane spider touching and unforgettable. Trumpet somewhat less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon tootles his way into many hearts and places. White's main achievement, though, is Louis' father, a cultivated cob who talks a brand of rhetoric such as might come of an alliance between Leda and the Late George...
...often blemished by curious shifts of timbre. Technically, however, she was in complete control and in her final number picked her way through a twisting coloratura passage and then leapt to a ringing high D. Tenor Roger Childs was called on only once--to sing "The Roasted Cygnet's Song," which lies in a stratospheric register--and Childs produced the notes as well as the proper quality of a wailing lament...
Dine by Candlelight. A Cygnet's life is ascetic: she may not smoke, wear trousers or enter a nightclub, and her few, heavily supervised dates are with escorts certified by her family. At the end of a gruelingly elegant day, Cygnets must dress ("looking as if they have washed too") to dine by candlelight at small tables rich with silver. Examinations test the sheen of the polish; this week the girls will be grilled on "table manners" or "arrangements and care of flowers as an indoor decoration," and "Why is it important for a magazine story to have...