Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constructive policies . . . splendid executive ability . . . Herbert Hoover never stands on two feet at the same time on anything."-William B. Hibbs, Washington broker, longtime Republican...
Eight times Babette l'Alpiniste (a cat) is known to have scaled the Blümlisalphorn (12,044 feet), accompanying parties of climbing humans...
Bobby, the only dog (bull) ever to ascend the Jungfrau (13,669 feet) performed that feat in 1911, encouraged by the whistles of his master and mistress, le marquis et la Marquise de Charette...
Relations Counsel Snell, in a chintz and mahogany suite, giving a party for the newspaper boys and abusing his employer. At the end of the play, he is back again in the city room with his feet on a desk and his snout in a telephone. A news rag, one gathers, is as inescapable as a winding sheet; the adherents of the prying profession hate their task but they cannot leave...
...shoebill heron injured at the Bronx Zoo is one of the most singular of all creatures. Five feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...