Word: storke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sorry relapse, which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes. Tilden, leaping and slipping like a tipsy stork, had withstood him scarely at all. Some people were saying that the theatre* had "gotten" long Will Tilden. Others said: "Nonsense, he will take care of himself when the Davis Cup matches and national championship come along." Some said he was clowning too much, his tournament intensity dissipated by other...
...birds of heaven, none is more moral than the stork. Monogamy is his rule and practice. Year in and year out he cleaves to the original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are commonly named "Cato," after the eminent Stoic...
...until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss...
...Stork...
...Viteze-in-Uckermark, Germany, a stork flying south from the autumn cold fell into a field. His wing was broken. All night he lay in a frosty furrow and when day came heard voices near at hand. Terrified out of his wits, what was his astonishment to find that some children were addressing him in soft imploring accents. They had stumbled upon him on their way to school. Now, when they go to school he struts behind them; while they construe their lessons he "stands motionless on one leg in the corner"; in the afternoon he "marches home before them...