Word: penguine
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...humor that lampoons our confused social mores? As a replacement, I suggest Heathcliffe. It's not funny and lacks insight, but at least it won't offend anyone. Too long have I felt the barbs of Berke Breathed's satire and am glad you have censored him. A grateful Penguin Committee for Social Responsibility (Transcribed by Allen Glazier...
...percent of the original price. Harvard Book Store sells used editions at a 25 percent discount and the Starr Book Shop on Bow St. sells books at 40 to 60 percent off. The selection is limited in all three cases, but Harvard Book Store offers a good supply of Penguin Books, and the Starr carries a wide selection of "classic scholarly books in all fields," according to one salesman...
...fathers of New Orleans picked a pelican. Last week the bird showed up at a Louisiana-sponsored State Department reception, to the amusement of Secretary of State George Shultz, 62. Perhaps his department needs a mascot too. How about a giraffe (elegant, with no voice of its own), a penguin (always in formal dress) or Dr. Dolittle's Pushmi-Pullyu (for simultaneously making policy statements and taking them back...
...encourages a student's underground traffic in exotic pastry because he has an unmanageable sweet tooth, a ten-year-old sister, precociously wise in the ways of the world, who gives Gregory such good advice as he gets on how to conduct his life. There is even a penguin - or rather, some one dressed up in a penguin suit - who in explicably wanders the school's corridor, collecting misdirections on where he is supposed to report. For all we know, he is still looking for his roost...
There are even 1,800 people, who shear the sheep, shoot the geese and occasionally eat penguin eggs. Almost all of the residents are of Scottish, Irish or Welsh descent and passionately claim allegiance to the distant monarchy that many of them have never seen (one of the three secular holidays celebrated every year is April 21, Her Majesty's birthday). And now there are about 5,000 Argentine troops who declare that the place is theirs...