Word: flipperize
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...antarctic explorer one day found himself in a lush, green valley near the South Pole (volcanic heat kept it warm). The valley was inhabited by civilized, seven-foot-tall penguins who lived in a "Penguinry" of neat stone houses. The grave "chairbird" of the penguin parliament waved his flipper at the explorer. A choir of tuneful penguins rippled off "fluting sounds" of welcome that reminded the explorer of the clarinet works of Johannes Brahms. One smart penguin soon learned to speak a sort of penguin-English. "Being a bird," he clacked, "of course I think we are the form...
Barred from Navy teaching is "gun" for throttle, "flipper" for elevator, many another loose expression. With instruction based on Patter, students can-and often are-passed from one teacher to another with no risk of confusion from linguistic individualism. Said one student pilot: "Patter is a great idea. The instructors talk more like each other now. They still swear alike, too, when...
When the seal was caught this year and sold to the aquarium Captain Knowles immediately went to see it and recognized it as his erstwhile pet by a broken left flipper. Oscar, who would not let anyone approach him, recognized the captain, followed him about and responded to his calls...
...national scene, five weeks ago, as an advocate of appeasement, Verne Marshall has been sizzling like grease in a hot skillet. While objectors to Mr. Marshall and the press were frying him on all sides, last week someone flipped him from the frying pan into the fire. The flipper: doughty Dr. Leon Milton Birkhead. Dr. Birkhead, who is head of the Friends of Democracy, Inc., flipped Mr. Marshall with a long-handled telegram...
...Liberia, professor of military science and tactics at Negro colleges. The other is his son, Lieutenant B.O. Davis Jr., who was graduated from West Point in 1936, the fourth of his race to make the grade at the Army school since the first Negro West Pointer (Henry O. Flipper) got his diploma in 1877. Graduated 35th in his class of 276 at the Military Academy, young Lieutenant Davis could not really hope to command white officers in a peacetime army, is now instructor of R. O. T. C. students at Tuskegee Institute...