Word: perched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several towns in darkness. I also had a lady rider come down on some high tension wires. Thought she might strike them so telephoned and had power shut off. She said it was "as easy as a spring bed.'' The city fireman rescued her from her high perch ... I wanted to correct the impression that the Bonettes are believed to be the only hot air balloonists now in the business. I arise to remark there are quite a few of us left...
...bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game. Having agreed to a quiet game, he found they had hired a hall and invited 300 cinema stars to watch the "world's championship." Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals. Best bridging Marx is Zeppo, best gambler Chico. All play a good bargaining game...
...partnership with the Shoemakers, he bought from Scott & Bowne for "several million dollars" their famed old Scott's Emulsion. Thus he was in full stride of expansion when Death overtook him. His executives will carry on the business, but no longer will a squeaky-voiced little man perch on their desks by the hour, no longer will he buttonhole them in thickly carpeted corridors to tell them his newest story...
Your mention of the Indian climbing perch is interesting but inaccurate (TIME. Feb. 6). People, including scientists, ''know" why it wants to go overland as well as they know countless other facts about fauna...
Like the African lung fish, the climbing perch is a specialist. Living in hot, often foul, water holes, it has developed a sort of auxiliary "lung" (labyrinth) that enables it to utilize atmospheric air instead of the oxygen in the water, which is too low under such conditions to sustain piscatorial life...