Word: swans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leda (Newking),a lady who has been painted by Paul Veronese, Correggio and Michael Angelo, bends in heroic contemplation of a swan as sturdy as a duck...
Bingham. Into Miami cruised the black Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged...
...Lange, Brooklyn, N. Y. Stuyvesant High 173 21 6.1 S. N. G. Stagg, Ithaca, N. Y. Ithaca Hign 166 19 6.1 C. R. Aronsen, Brookline Brookline High 112 21 5.1 PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY CREW Pos. Name Residence School Wt. Age. Ht. B. D. M. Swan, Philadelphia, Pa. Hagerstown High 175 20 6.1 2. C. H. Grashoff, Rochester, N. Y. East High 175 20 6.2 1/2 3. B. S. Redway, Ilion, N. Y. Ilion High 182 22 6.1 4. H. E. McDonald, East Orange, N. J. East Orange High 198 22 6.2 1/2 5. A. S. Goetz, Ocean City, N. J. Ocean...
...Swan. In the person of Adolphe Menjou naughtiness achieves a grace, a punctilious elegance which may well chagrin the Prince of Darkness himself. In the first scene of this picture Mr. Menjou, Crown Prince of Hungary, is awakened by a fly which alights on the end of his nose and inspires him, while he buttons his tunic, to relate to the officers of his staff an impolite story which is one of the most consummate pieces of pantomime that has ever enriched the cinema. He starts down to breakfast, falls in love with a charming proletarian whom he meets...
...Book. In 1795, the daughter of a man who ran a livery stable at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance...