Word: walrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ernest ("Uncle Ernest") Henry Schelling, 63, lanky, walrus-mustached U. S. pianist & composer, for 16 years avuncular if unsensational conductor of New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society's Young People's concerts (for children); suddenly, of cerebral embolism; in Manhattan. At deathbed-side was his four-month bride, Helen Huntington ("Peggy") Marshall Schelling, 21-year-old niece of Mrs. Vincent Astor...
...promise. It described the hardships and eventual victory of the conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft-looking Elmo Lincoln, playing a blacksmith into whose custody the captured Kaiser (Rupert Julian) was given after the War. The late Lon (Man of a Thousand Faces) Chaney played walrus-whiskered Admiral von Tirpitz, as mild-looking a Santa Claus as ever ordered an ocean liner spurlos versenkt (sunk without trace...
First editor of the Courier-Journal was Colonel Henry Watterson ("Marse Henry") who helped to found it by a merger in 1868. A bellicose, one-eyed, ex-Confederate cavalry scout with walrus mustaches, Colonel Watterson knew 13 U. S. Presidents, thoroughly approved of only one: Abraham Lincoln. He took keen pleasure in abusing each of the others in turn, whether Democrat or Republican...
...politics with a conservative Congress without seeming to do so; Taft had to temper Uncle Joe Cannon and was promptly accused of bowing to him. T. R.'s bouncing spirit rode the ground swell of the Progressive movement; Taft was too solid to bounce. His great girth, white walrus moustaches and booming chuckle made it easy for people to like him at first, just as easy for them to see him later as an affable pushover for Big Business...
Kangerdlugssuatsiaq. Paul-Emile Victor looks like a young man about Paris. He is an outstanding French ethnographer who has the frozen field of Eskimo doings pretty much to himself. He speaks fluently their polysyllabic language which for most people is as tough as a piece of walrus gristle. At Kangerdlugssuatsiaq, he lived for six months as a member of the Eskimo community, records his observations of life in a crowded igloo in a 349-page book, whose footnotes and appendices are often more exciting than the rather disjointed text...