Word: hummingbird
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...Kieran writes this book over again, I wish he would put in a little more detailed information. On the hummingbird, for example, I would have said their wings go over 60 times a second, that a lot of people don't know that they are the only birds that can fly backward...
...gone to Washington as Resident Commissioner of the newly acquired Philippines. A Spanish-Malay mestizo, born of schoolteaching par ents on the island of Luzon, he had fought in the insurrectionist army against Spain, afterwards against the U. S. invaders. Full of energy, brilliant, brittle, as unpredictable as a hummingbird, he spent seven years reminding the U. S. Government of its promises to set the islands free. When he left Washington he had in his pocket the Jones Act, which did not give the Filipinos independence but granted them more voice in their Government. Back in Manila, he got himself...
...hummingbird when in love sways back & forth like a pendulum attached to an invisible wire, in an arc of some twelve feet, and makes a sound "like a bow drawn across cello strings...
...down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals by paying their keep. Typical rates: giant panda, ?2 a week; elephant or okapi, 30 shillings; squirrel, dormouse or hummingbird, one shilling...
Counterclockwise to the sun. a U. S. monoplane was winging its way over strange soil and seas. Brown natives on lonely wastes and swarthy fishermen on desolate coasts looked upward from their fires and nets to see the huge hummingbird dart eastward overhead. Edward F. Schlee, Detroit oil man, and William S. Brock, onetime air mail pilot, drove the Pride of Detroit toward the glory of circling the world in record time. The previous record made by airplane, train and boat: 28 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes...