Word: storke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts the faker's delicious dancer (Jobyna Ralston). Latest Lloyd laughables: a "grinning" stork; laundry on a kite string; amorous tree-climbing; a monkey in a man's shoes; synthetic dishwashing; ringtoss with life-preservers to capture the villain, upend him, paddle him ashore with a broom...
...F.P.A. who in New York, Received a visit from the stork We offer blessings duly solemn. Respecting him who runs a column...
...rhinoc'rus" was among the horde of beasts, birds and reptiles captured by Dr. Mann, but there were: a shoebill stork* and some 400 other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...
...sixth captured by collectors in the past 35 years. The first shoebill stork ever brought to the U. S. arrived last month from upper Egypt (TiME, Oct. 18) in charge of his captor, Collector George H. Bistany, and was to tour the country's zoos...
Incredible feet, swollen knees, a body like a fat egg, a bent neck, tufted cranium, misty eyes very high and close together and a heavy spatulate appendage, blotched and yellow, more like a piece of foot gear than a nose-that was balaeniceps rex, the shoebill stork, who arrived in Manhattan last week, cabined in the officers' quarters of his steamer, from Lake No, near Khartoum, Upper Egypt. He was one of five specimens that collectors have captured in 35 years. Two of his kin died some years ago in England. Two stalk dejectedly about the zoo at Cairo...