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...chickens and catches of fish, and reduced them to sucking pandanus fruit and coconut milk. Now, back under the eye of British colonial officers (TIME, Dec. 13), some volunteered for labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced on the pebbled floors of their spacious, thatched meetinghouses...
...palm swift glues the nest with saliva to the side of a palm frond; then glues the eggs to the nest. To hatch the eggs, the parent birds (taking turns) grip the back of the nest with their feet, nestle themselves against the eggs. When the young hatch, their parents help them to hold their perilous perch until they are ready...
...High as a Kite," starring Franklin, the University's founder, who started the institution two hundred years ago, is the story of his matrimonial troubles with the sister of his ward, which are finally frond out by Marie Antoinette. Main attractions of the frolicsome show are the clever routines, including a minuet for the famous "lady" chorus, soughs by Clay Poland, author of "Stop! Its's Wonderful"; and the contrast of 1740 costumes and 1940 dialogue...
...Antonio: his presiding at the bicentenary celebration of the founding of the city's civil government by some Canary Islanders in 1731. He conducted a pontifical high mass on the Military Plaza behind San Fernando Cathedral. Down amongst the 15,000 worshippers crashed a heavy palm frond but, perhaps miraculously, only six people were slightly injured. Hundreds of the faithful came to kiss the cardinal's ring, receive his blessing...
...doubled up with pain. He grabbed at the staggerer's blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing in his French way that the "Gorgeous Orchid Man," now a wilted frond, had been crushed by Gene Tunney with a blow below the belt in the 14th (penultimate) round of their fight for Tunney's U. S. light heavyweight boxing title. Policemen subdued Descamps. Referee Griffin seized Tunney's right hand, held it aloft, said: "You win, Gene!" The scene...