Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their first names, caught from aides and unerringly repeated such names as "Accioly," "Hsia," "Zaldumbide," "Garreau-Dombasle." After China's Minister and Mme Sao-ke Alfred Sze (black brocaded chiffon kimono and diamond tiara), after Siam's Minister and Princess Damras (black velvet and ermine)-at the tail end of the diplomatic line-came the first representative of Russia to appear at a White House reception in 15 years: Soviet Chargé d'Affaires and Mrs. Boris E. Skvirsky (gold satin with train). Amid the bourgeois pomp they smiled, carried themselves with haughty dignity...
Eskimo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a report of goings-on in the snowfields, some naive, some sophisticated, but almost all unusual, spectacular, disturbing. Most enthralling sequences are those which exhibit: its hero, Mala, engaged in hunting a whale, which nearly upsets his boat with it's tail; dignified walruses which almost succeed in gnashing him with their tusks; caribou, of which a herd stampedes through a valley, over a hill, across a beach and into the water, where Mala and his companions harpoon them. There are, also, less healthy exercises to be seen in Eskimo-lust, murder, polygamy. Mala...
...glistening scales are pale reddish yellow crossed with diamond-shaped black patches on the back. It may be the progenitor of the whole pit viper family, of which it is the longest. The group includes rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead, fer-de-lance. On the end of the bushmaster's tail is a slender horn, possibly a vestigial set of rattles. Like the rest of the family, it has a deep pit on either side of its big, blunt snout. It is the only member which lays eggs, usually nesting in deserted armadillo holes. It grows up to 12 ft. long...
...most famed racing trophies in Britain. Originally "The Whip" was a cravache used by peruked Charles II, but the original whip was lost, has been a will o' the wisp for antiquaries these many years. The present trophy is supposed to have been carefully plaited from the tail of that greatest of stallions, the unbeaten Eclipse. Lord Harewood was given seven days either to forfeit The Whip or agree to race his father-in-law's five-year-old Fox Earth for it at the Newmarket Spring Meeting next April...
...month-old baby, picked up Miami's Mayor Sewell, and made for Akron, Ohio. It was after dusk when Dr. Hugo Eckener pointed the ship's nose down through driving rain into the floodlights of the Good-year-Zeppelin dock at Akron. A sharp gust whipped her tail (which now sports the Nazi swastika). Safe-playing Dr. Eckener knew the ship could not be docked in such a ground wind; rather than ride the night out at the mooring mast, he let his passengers ride it out aloft...