Word: walruses
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...Rome aboard an armored train with anti-aircraft guns mounted fore & aft. Crowds obediently cheered him at the station and Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano was there to greet him. The two Foreign Ministers went into a huddle from which both emerged all smiles, like a Walrus and a Carpenter about to make a good meal...
...with Benito Mussolini. Foreign correspondents, of the U. S. and of all those little nations which may be swallowed like oysters, buttonholed their Foreign Office friends, got only mysterious shakes of the head. Equally mysterious were the newspapers. Virginio Gayda's Giornale d'ltalia struck the true Walrus-&-Carpenter note in an editorial headlined No Hurry. "There is no necessity to tell all at this moment," wrote Mouthpiece Gayda...
...Walrus von Ribbentrop postponed his return to Berlin, spent a whole day ostentatiously sight-seeing with Carpenter Ciano. They lunched at the country club (which used to be a British hangout), lingered in long conversation over coffee...
About the same time it was decided that tousle-headed, slow-spoken, walrus-mustached National Director Henry Alsberg seemed a little too pinko, talked a little too much about his indigestion, was a little too slow in getting production started on the Guide Books and other projects. He retired from WPA. Alsberg and colleagues had started out to produce great Art. Congress by & large preferred results...
...last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man's guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the whale catch, caused recurrent famine years. So in 1892, a notable famine year, a Presbyterian missionary named Sheldon Jackson, backed by Quaker funds, undertook an experiment in practical ecology, which is the science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured...