Word: perching
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...Erie, Pa., high-school children (watched by a chemistry instructor) set out to investigate. Filling a bowl with equal parts of whisky and water, they placed therein a red perch. It lived four seconds. A bullfrog lasted 13 seconds, a bass one minute, a sunfish four minutes. Then a tadpole was dropped into the bowl. It lived...
...Died. Perch H. Fitzgerald, 96, intimate and biographer of Charles Dickens, in London. Litterateur, painter, sculptor, he was founder of the famed "Boz Club" and a friend of Carlyle...
...azure glass dappled with the same gold, stepped with a fairy pride across the expanse of Chinese lacquer which separated him from his mate, and the two, meeting, caressed each other with delicate gestures of affection. A hummingbird, with feathers blown in pearl color and crimson, flew from his perch, alighting on the leafy chandelier; the spray that received him bent and swayed and from its largest rose a petal drifted to the floor...
...especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded as a great American novelist, especially for Senator North (1900), The Conqueror (1902), Perch of the Devil...
...stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard...