Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since Britain wrested Hong Kong from the Chinese during the Opium War, the rocky island which the Chinese contemptuously called a "penguin's nest" has become a traders' and tourists' delight. Despite civil war on the mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...
Lamb & Pup. For two years, Muffin the Mule has been enchanting Britain's old & young. He is supported by a large cast, including a "terribly brainy" penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
Briggs Hall breakfasts on strawberries and cream and nothing else one morning in June and Freshmen get a chance to fight back at the annual "take-off" skit in the fall. George, a stuffed penguin, attends all Bertram Hall jamborees as mascot and chaperone, and the table at Eliot Hall's annual Christmas punch is graced by a home-frozen bowl chopped from a chunk...
...AMERICAN POEMS (184 pp.)-Edited by Selden Rodman-Penguin Signet...
...What Sort Big Dornkey?" The sights and sounds of civilization brought murmurs of comparison. On Tristan, fish oil lights the lamps. The diet is fish and potatoes, augmented sometimes by albatross and penguin eggs. Now the six men looked into the kaleidoscope of a lighted city. They ate ice cream doused with brandy. They gazed at autos. Murmured balding, long-nosed Gordon Glass* at his first glimpse of one: "A most wunnerful movement." At his first sight of a horse: "What sort big dornkey is that...