Word: mallard
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...bathing suit, with water up to his neck, with his camera mounted near the engineroom ceiling, he photographed the crew escaping one by one with "artificial lungs" (TIME Feb. 18). The device was a success, but not for Traub. He stayed where he was until the U. S. S. Mallard on the surface pumped the submarine full of air at high pressure, bringing her up but making Traub deaf for a while...
...respectively employed by a newspaper magnate, an industrialist, and Her Honor, the Prime Minister of England. Each of these worthies was scheming to prevent the sale of West Iranian minerals to either of the others, though nothing was further from the confused thoughts of poor Mallard. Harassed, indignant, he escaped to France, only to be welcomed by Sleuth E (with an accent...
...Significance. Chesterton's pencil sketches add immeasurably to the fun? "Lady Caroline Balcomb plumbing the Depths of European Affairs" through a lorgnette; "Richard Mallard expressing his incapacity for surprise." The text is a sparkling satire on "our old and complex society," and a bitter burlesque of politics in general and female politicians in particular. It is also an excellent travesty on the standard detective story. The slight plot?international intrigue in the later 20th century?is a mockery, and the countless detectives a taunt...
...submarine 54, once a coffin for 40 seamen off Provincetown, Mass., now a rescue laboratory stripped of fighting gear, gurgled purposefully down into seven fathoms of blue Gulf Stream water off Key West last week, carrying a trapped crew of 15 volunteers. The U. S. S. Mallard (tender) stood by. After 15 minutes a black buoy bobbed up among the waves. Three anxious minutes crawled by. Then the head of Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski plopped out on the surface. A minute later Lieut. Charles B. Momsen emerged. They were the first two U. S. submariners ever to escape directly from...
...Souls' College allows itself one big celebration every hundred years. The night All Souls' was consecrated, Chichele, it is said, went up on the roof of the college to give thanks to God for the completion of his work. And there he came upon a mallard duck, which was resting there. He gave thanks for the lucky omen, for the mallard was the badge of his family, and told the newly appointed Fellows that once every hundred years, they should all go up on the roof of the college and look for a mallard, and if they found one they...