Word: snail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paleolithic man ate snails. So do modern Frenchmen. Every year thousands of them are plucked from trees, bushes, walls and the good soil of Burgundy, are pulled rudely out of their shells, boiled, dressed with garlic, stuffed back and served up sizzling hot on tin plates to be downed between gulps of rich red Chambertin. So delectable is the escargot that the best breeds of him are becoming scarce. To restrict snail-plucking, the Department Council of the Cote d'Or met lately at Dijon, soon found itself embroiled in a hopeless argument over the question of what...
Cried Councillor Jules Guichet: "But certainly the snail is game. One hunts it, does one not? The game warden is trying to escape his responsibility...
...will be a problem in itself. If that government is dominated or controlled by the Nazis, the German attitude will almost certainly make a conference futile. Since France could hardly take part without assurances from Germany in regard to reparations, which no Nazi government could possibly give. And the snail-like foreign policy of this country would in that case withdraw once again into its shell...
...snow was waist-deep, the cold bitter. On one trail a ledge gave way, the leading car hung suspended bridge-like over a deep gorge. Cables extricated it. Over Tragbal Pass, 11.560 feet high, the two cars struggled, then across Burzil Pass, 13,775 feet up. Weeks of snail-like progress brought them to Gilgit, 150 miles northwest of Srinagar. Leader Haardt considered the higher mountains before him, decided the two cars never would get over them. On 200 yaks and ponies the party went on, leaving the cars in Gilgit-first wheeled vehicles ever to reach that mountain outpost...
Whelk, Trifling incidents make comedy at such serious gatherings. Professor Henry Hurd Swinnerton needed to display a whelk, a kind of sea snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt...