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...Sailors from the ships Bowdoin and Peary occupied a few of their many consecutive hours of daylight with a hunting trip, were attacked by "an infuriated herd of at least 100 walrus," escaped without injury...
...warned the U. S. that "a party that wants to do all the selling and no buying will end by doing no selling at all, because his buyers will be, like the poor oysters of the Walrus and the Carpenter, all gone. The seller, like the Carpenter, will one day make a beautiful speech and wake up to find himself speaking to thin air, because 'oysters there were none...
Konrad Bercovici is one of these walrus-mustached foreigners who give a touch of the exotic to the reaches of the Hotel Algonquin, Manhattan. Two new books of his are on the autumn lists?Around the World in New York and lliana, a collection of gypsy stories. His play, Costa's Daughter, will soon be unveiled to the glances of Broadway. Bercovici is a Rumanian, born there in 1882. He came to this country in 1916, but no amount of American sunlight and air, fortunately, can erase the swarthy hue of his person or the sleek ebon of hair...
...walrus-mustached foreignuer...
When the tattooed man and the Circassian beauty were still listed among the "wonders of nature," and when darcdevils won fame by walking tight ropes across the Niagara River, walrus mustaches were prominent wherever cornerstones were laid or a political barbecue was damaged by rain...