Word: scorpion
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...last ten years, endless to Oxonians, the motley millions who roar from the banks of the river and from the big brewery windows, the tumultuous holiday crowd of picnickers, cheap-jacks, street musicians and acrobats have cheered "Caa-a-am-bridge!" as the light blue's eight-legged scorpion came skating over the water in a series of monotonous victories. This spring with a strong, heavy crew Oxford set about the business of acquiring a victory for a change. Practices were guarded and secret. A system of buzzers and bells was rigged in the boat to signal the beat...
...European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years. Or they work and drink themselves deathward on scattered plantations. In the unmapped interior roam man-eating lions, hostile natives, rumors of an unkillable rebel chief. The Governor, aptly nicknamed the Scorpion, is a polished gentleman grown old in disease and expedient wickedness. He welcomes Jeronimo, gives him the job of mapping the unknown interior. But he distrusts him, sends after him to have him arrested...
However, small 4-cylinder air-cooled "in-lines" are beginning to be manufactured in the U. S. Small gadabouts demand them. Among those already tried out satisfactorily are the Dayton Bear, American Cirrus, Aeronautical Products Scorpion, De Havilland Gipsy, National Aero Cameron...
...Scorpions crawled on the bosom of Lake Cayuga one afternoon last week - the red-and-white-footed scorpion of Cornell and the blue-and-gold of California. For nearly three miles they crawled evenly, staccato voices in their tails urging their legs to greater labor. Then open water began to show. There was a scorpion's length of it between the two when Cornell-her eight gigantic hearties bursting from a last effort which her slightly lighter California guests could not match-shot across the line, winner of a crew race that promised brave things for Cornell later...
...another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately plunged, its stinger into her hand. While Mlle. Hastre received medical aid, friends of Mlle. Van Hong Lu loudly denied that she could have connived in the hoax...