Word: petrel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PETRE-Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated by G. K. Chesterton)-McBride ($2.50). When the grey little man in the taxi ejaculated "Petrel" and hastily explained he was talking to himself, the cabbie smiled sympathetically. But the clerk at the Hotel Splendide knew better. He completed the name most deferentially-John K. Petre-without being told. And Mrs. Celia Cyril (whoever she was) seemed enchanted with John K. Petre (whoever he was). The two ex-chancellors agreed, the Old Cabinet Minister hemmed affably. So the little grey man guessed he was John K. Petre without doubt, evidently a U. S. millionaire...
Admiral Sims. Like Colonel Mitchell but in different manner and degree, Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, has been a stormy petrel. He possibly got his vigorous way of speaking from President Roosevelt, whom he served as naval aide from 1907 to 1909. But earlier than that he had protested to Mr. Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands...
...eradication of these political parties gives Premier Pashitch by virtue of law what he could not get by the ballot-a parliamentary majority. The law is called the State Defense Act and prohibits Stefan Raditch, "stormy petrel of the Balkans," leader of the Croatian autonomists, from entering into arrangements with foreign countries. Raditch had become a close friend of the Moscow autocrats; whereupon, after mature thought, Premier Pashitch snapped his fingers and the law became operative...
...chief matter to be settled is whether or not Croatia is to have "autonomy." Under the able leadership of Raditch, "Stormy petrel of the Balkans," the Croatians have persistently demanded their freedom and the Serbs have with equal persistence denied it to them. In the last election the Croatians secured 70 seats in the Skupshtina; this year they may do better. If they should win, another section of Yugo-Slavia (South Slavia) must be granted its freedom...
...skeletons of climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel, the fruit pigeon of Rapa, red-tailed tropic bird, shearwater and others. Every island group in Polynesia has its own species of warbler, with amazing variability...