Word: unicorn
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...Game Hunter Willy Ley* has returned from safari. Having tracked his prey through the dank undergrowth of large public libraries, he has put his trophies on exhibition in a newly published book, The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn (Viking...
...Gentle Unicorn. The unicorn, King of (nonexistent) Beasts, was reputed to be a graceful, strong animal that could not be taken by force. But like the "gentil knights" of the troubadours' verses, it would lay its head in a virgin's lap. A pity, says Ley, to believe that the unicorn is only an ugly rhinoceros, dimly and distantly seen. Perhaps the noble beast had a pleasanter prototype. Modern scientists know, Ley points out, that the horn buds of a calf can be transplanted to the middle of its forehead, where they develop together into a "unicorn" (single...
...first speaker of the day-of any of the five convention days-advanced to the microphone, floor and galleries began filling up, and the convention came alive. Photographers jostled in belligerent knots, each holding a camera to his eye like a unicorn adjusting his horn. Heat and humidity rose. Coats came off and the face of the crowd moved with the urgent fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans. Within minutes it was hot enough to grow orchids...
...Club's annual show, "A Bride for the Unicorn" was nearly cancelled when then President Ada Comstock of Radcliffe refused to permit 'Cliffe undergraduates to act in the play because the parts "were unsuitable for young women to play...
...Lion & Unicorn. Philosopher D'Arcy is mainly concerned with the twofold aspect of love-eros (love in its selfish, passionate forms) and agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called "charity"). Most philosophical speculation on the subject has posed these two as ancient enemies. They have sometimes been symbolized by the Lion (eros) and the Unicorn (agape) which "went fighting round the town...