Word: tails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is a sea elephant? President Coolidge knew all about the land elephant, which is the symbol of his political party: the largest of land animals, herbivorous, mammalian, ungulate, with a flexible proboscis, exaggerated incisors (tusks), rudimentary tail. But what is a sea elephant; mammal or fish? President Coolidge said he did not know and when John Ringling, who was in Washington with his circus, called at the White House and said his sea elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year...
...scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress uniform. Behind the President were grouped several Commissars (Ministers) clad as simply as he, and behind them, filling the station...
...thaousan' nine Mass Avenue," exulted the man on the bouncing tail-step...
...Mesozoic times, contemporaneously with the dinosaurs on land, the seas swarmed with these reptiles, sometimes reaching 30 feet in length. They developed a true fish shape, together with front and hind paddles, and some of them had a fish-shaped tail and dorsal fin. Their jaws were long and armed with many sharp-pointed, conical teeth. So numerous were these animals that in the Mesozoic Age they ruled the sea, and even the sharks had difficulty competing with them...
...loyal wife who sailed for Australia with me a week after our marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard as the boat rolls back, and the 'Cot damn fish he got to come...