Word: walrus
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...MacMillan last week. He had been investigating ruins and legends problematically indicative of Norse settlements in America a thousand years ago. Maine coastal towns turned out to welcome their state's special hero. The Field Museum of Chicago rejoiced at the prospect of receiving a 1,500-pound walrus carcass and other specimens...
...since no one else could do so. Returning from the World deadlock at Geneva to his own National stalemate, the exhausted Aristide told pressmen wearily that there was little to choose between the two. Then he smiled (no one knew why) and metaphorically plunged like a cheerful old walrus into the fearful welter of Chamber debate. Throughout the remainder of the week, his rich cello voice boomed...
...luncheon, tete a tete with his friend Clémenceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...
...indeed make war?like a mad bulldog-walrus-tiger all rolled into one! Strangely enough, his pessimistic worldly philosophy caused him to deny explicitly on one occasion that God inspired the almost religious Crusade which he made out of the War. He gave the credit to the Spirit of France: "Ce n'est pas Dieu, c'est la France qui le veut...
...infuriated herd of.at least 100 walrus. (P.18...