Word: phillipic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boss. Sent upstairs supperless, Penrod gets out of a whipping by swearing in his dad as a junior G-man. When a gang of crooks holds up the town bank and shoots a colored woman, mother of Penrod's friend and fellow G-man Verman (Phillip Hurlic, the junior G-men throw their efforts on the side of the law. As dramaturgy, the device of having Bank-robber Hanson (Craig Reynolds; and associates take refuge in the barn which is G-man headquarters, may smack of the coincidental; as fantasy, it blends properly with the hayloft fantasies...
...Class Secretary, the names of William John Watt and Robert Edward Purdy were added. For Permanent Class Committee Francis Gorham Brigham, Jr., Daniel Erskine Burbank, Jr., Frederick Phillip Glike, David Blanding MacIntosh, Charles Wheeler O'Connor, and Edward Lorraine Young, III, were nominated by petition...
...likewise for vocal reasons. She uses an impassionate monotone, which is expect comical when she waxes philosophic and hero encomium on the boys living alone, in being able to go have and find nobody waiting for you was the only line that stopped the play to around applause Phillip Reed as the snake and Alden Chase as the home body likewise left nothing to be desired in a highly diverting, swift-fleeing are wing's entertainment...
...State of Victoria has provided a sanctuary for the koala on Phillip Island in Great Western Bay near the most southeasterly tip of the continent. Although almost extinct on the mainland the "bears" have done very well in their island home and lately have become so numerous that it has been necessary to remove many of them to adjacent spots...
These engaging creatures are common sights to the summer vacationists at Phillip Island. They are protected by law and heavy fines are imposed upon anyone who harms them. In the daytime the Joey leads a rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...