Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laid. Two penguin eggs; by a penguin eggless for years & years; at the Bronx Zoo. Hatching time: "We figure it about...
Madeleine is a British spy trying to smuggle a brooch-full of vital statistics from New York City to Los Angeles. Hope is the lesser half of a three-a-day penguin roller-skating act. They meet when Madeleine chooses his dressing room for a hideout from pursuing Nazis. They get out for Hollywood together by Pullman after she has bussed him once and Percy, the penguin, has been signed for pictures...
...headed by Lord Halifax's brother-in-law, the Earl of Onslow, has long disapproved of Huxley's liberal politics (frequently propounded in newspaper articles), his outside activities (weekly appearances on the BBC's popular Brain Trust program) and his blasphemous innovations in the Zoo (modernistic penguin pool, Children's Corner...
...Published jointly by the Infantry Journal and Penguin Books, Inc. Available from the Infantry Journal are one to ten copies: 25? each; eleven to 50 copies: 20?each. Fifty-one or more would-be guerrillas can get copies at 17? each...
...five cameramen, who caught the matchless greens and browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...