Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Castanets commanding and enticing, sleek black gowns, ruffled white gowns, gowns with all the colors of a peacock's tail-with these to Manhattan last week returned Dancer Argentina (real name: Antonia Merce) who again will tour as far as the Pacific Coast, give some 50 recitals. At the end of last season Argentina underwent an appendectomy, a proceeding dangerous for a dancer none too young. Special care was taken not to cut a muscle and she is just as agile as before. Her great pride this year is the little red ribbon which she wears on every coat...
...course the cream of the milking, the grade A girls, are pretty well pleased, while all the others who managed to keep out of "no man's land", that area where strangely enough the signs of battle are least in evidence, can't kick. And at least the tail enders can console themselves with the thought that they are in the majority, which is what counts in this democratic country of ours...
...National Air Transport's New York-Cleveland mail run, took leave of absence two years ago to go to Antarctica with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Fortnight ago he got his old job back. Last week he took off from Cleveland with 700 Ib. of mail, rode a tail wind over the Alleghenies and into Newark Airport (412 mi.) in 2 hr. 51 min.-a new record...
...clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing at all. In his side was a small slit where you were supposed to put pennies, but his little mistress never had a centavo to drop into the hole; so his savings-bank stomach remained permanently empty." Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow...
...director of the hatcheries distinguished her among wall-eye pike by punching a hole in her tail fin in acknowledgment of her reproductive ability...