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...elaborately wacky as "the dance of the gooney birds on Wake Island."* Thirty passengers are considered a small convoy, and everybody stays put; more than 30, and everybody dismounts except drivers and assistant drivers, who are not counted. In no case may the Russians lower the tail gate of trucks or order the passengers to stand up. Reason: a test showed that even a 5-ft. shrimp could count heads by just looking into the back of a U.S. Army truck with its tail gate raised. Some British lorries have higher tail gates, so the British regularly lower them when...
...week, as 10 million hunters expectantly tramped out across the golden fields for the start of the upland bird season, the lucky man was the one with a dog-a good, solid, well-trained pooch to find the bird, wait patiently until the master is ready, then retrieve in tail-wagging triumph...
...great white hunter (Robert Mitchurn) arrives in Malaya to trap this exotic specimen, he encounters an enchantress (Elsa Martinelli) who is patently another breed of cat. Her eyes are brown, her claws are red, her coat was made by Oleg Cassini. As she glides through the jungle, her tail twitches wickedly and Mitchum's thinning hair stands...
...semiformal evening requiring a tuxedo. This outfit is the only species of formal wear which immortalizes an American town--Tuxedo, N. Y. It gained its excellent name through an incident in 1886. In that gilded year a member of the 400 appeared at a Newport gala with the tails neatly snipped off his frock coat. Understandably scandalized, the fashionable crowd forced him to flee Newport. He then took refuge at Tuxedo where the coat sans tail became popular. From Tuxedo the tuxedo spread bearing the name of the town which accepted it. Recently, though, the tuxedo has often lost...
...year old physician, carrying an Eland-tail fly wisk and an intricately carved staff of authority, told a Winthrop House audience...