Word: walrus
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...period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century enamel plaque bearing a pop-eyed head of Christ. Latest is a silver relic cross made in 1483. Most important artistically is a casket reliquary in the form of a Byzantine church of gold, walrus ivory and brilliant enamel which once held the dried skull of St. Gregory...
Ignatz Moscicki (who was for a time a Swiss citizen and therefore changed his Polish "Ignacy" to "Ignatz") did not re-sign last week, and walrus-whiskered, swashbuckling, often eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski continued morosely to dictate. About once a year he makes some striking public utterance, and for the past two years it has been a variant of his celebrated saying...
...waxed fat. Going further than mere powder-selling they purveyed unicorn horn cups, elaborately carved, which would guarantee living to a ripe old age. Horn walking sticks or wands were still more powerful. The latter, which in today's money were worth well over $100,000, were manufactured from walrus and elephant tusks. Most great cathedral treasuries owned one; they were necessary adjuncts to a monarch's wardrobe...
...eleventh year of shouting through walrus-like whiskers the contempt he feels for Poland's Parliament and Poland's politicians,* Marshal Josef Pilsudski took a drastic step last week, told President Ignatz† Mosciki of Poland to call to the Prime Ministry Judge Jan Pilsudski. Promptly the President did as he was told...
...brother to Josef. Jan remembers the time when Josef, equipped not only with walrus whiskers but also a handsome, goatlike beard, was clapped into jail by the Imperial Russian Government for making exactly the same sort of remarks he makes as Dictator today. Jan remembers how Josef's lawyers suggested that in jail he act and talk like a madman, and how magnificently Josef played the role, and how the Imperial Russian Government was so obtuse as to transfer him to a hospital in St. Petersburg, whence he promptly escaped...