Word: walrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come up here, you Georgia Crackers!" 75-year-old W. A. Shiver shouted through his snowy, walrus mustache. This tieless cotton farmer from Cairo, Ga. also launched a running tirade against his fellow-Georgian, anti-New Dealer Governor Eugene Talmadge, crying: "We ain't got no Governor, but we're here anyhow...
...command of the Polish Army had known it for weeks, so had the Cabinet, the secret police. Government plans had been drawn up and every preparation made. Yet not until it was all over did the world know that Poland's most powerful son, the shaggy-browed old walrus, Marshal Josef Pilsudski had died of cancer of the stomach and liver. At 9 p. m. a State reception for the French Ambassador was suddenly canceled. Police patrols that already had their orders moved out to strategic street corners. Every theatre, cafe and dance hall in Warsaw was closed, indefinitely...
...life walrus-mustached Josef Pilsudski was faithful to but one ideal, the strength and independence of Poland. With the collapse of Germany, Austria and Russia in 1917-18, he turned promptly to France for assistance against the Bolsheviks. In this he was helped mightily by lion-maned Pianist Paderewski who won the sympathy of Woodrow Wilson and other Allied leaders. In 1920 when Marshal Pilsudski was at war with Russia in an attempt to drive Soviet troops from East Galicia, and found his troops beaten at every turn, it was the French military mission, and in particular Marshal Foch...
When the Army alone knew that the brave old walrus was dying three weeks ago, Poland's famed Colonels' Clique suddenly brought forward the new Constitution on which they had been working for five years and had it formally signed. Thus last week gentle President Moscicki, a brilliant scientist but an uncertain politician, found himself with enormous paper powers. He has absolute veto over Parliament, he can take command of the Army and Navy, and dismiss Parliament by decree...
Coal was getting scarce in his little hospital. However, Eskimos piled whale and walrus blubber at the back door in case blubber was needed for fuel.* Airplanes brought Dr. Greist canned milk for his patients and some serums. By wireless he informed the interested world that the three other white men and two trained nurses at Point Barrow were helping bring the epidemic under control...