Word: kangaroos
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...York University to become a dentist, nonchalantly began to remove his overgarments at about the time his rivals began to have serious trouble clearing the bar. He took off his flannel trousers at 6:4, his sweatshirt at 6:5. On his feet he wore shoes of kangaroo skin, made to order, with pin spikes and crepe rubber soles, lighter than those of his confreres. Spectators noticed peculiarities in his style, occasioned by the fact that he learned to high jump without the supervision of an experienced coach, at his home in Whitestone, L. I. He circled slightly coming...
...arrivals last week. With ill-concealed disgust they observed the plebeian habits of 25 chattering monkeys, 50 impertinent parrots, two elephants, two brown bears, one polar bear, two spotted hyenas, one striped hyena, 13 lions, two tigers, two wolves, five leopards, two dromedaries, a pelican, a crane, a leaping kangaroo and a sloppy old sea lion named Bonzo. Wondered the Manchester Guardian: "Will they bring the circus habit into the glades and meadows of Whipsnade? Or will the old circus performers keep themselves entirely to themselves...
...days ahead of the speed record set by his good friend Lieut. Charles W. A. Scott, Royal Air Force boxer (TIME, June 15) in the same type of plane. After a hurried luncheon at Pevensey, Pilot Mollison flew 45 mi. farther, to Croydon, almost mowed down a pet kangaroo brought to the airdrome by one of an admiring...
...Indian poppadums, cheeses-marmalades, honeys from Syria, Portugal, Greece, England; Bombay duck; cox-combs in jelly; grouse pie; vintage marmalades; sole farcie en champagne. He explains that Fortnum & Mason anxiously awaits the Department of Agriculture's permission to sell rare soups, including those made from shark fins and kangaroo tails...
...kangaroo was scarcely more Australian than Melba herself. In Australia she grew up as Nellie Porter Mitchell, daughter of a rigid Scottish contractor who thwarted all her early efforts to make music a profession. He relented after her unfortunate marriage to Charles Nesbitt Armstrong, manager of a sugar plantation in the Queensland Bush, whom she left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering...